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Noun abstraction has 6 senses
- abstraction, abstract - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
--1 is a kind of concept, conception, construct
--1 has particulars: right; absolute; teacher; thing
- abstraction - the act of withdrawing or removing something
--2 is a kind of removal, remotion
- abstraction, generalization, generalisation - the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
--3 is a kind of theorization, theorisation
- abstraction - an abstract painting
--4 is a kind of painting, picture
- abstractedness, abstraction - preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
--5 is a kind of preoccupation, preoccupancy, absorption, engrossment
--5 has particulars: reverie, revery
- abstraction - a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
--6 has particulars:
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