abstraction   (Sound)

The 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")


• abstraction -- (the act of withdrawing or removing something)


• abstraction, generalization, generalisation -- (the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances)


• abstraction -- (an abstract painting)


• abstractedness, abstraction -- (preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else)


• abstraction, abstract entity -- (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)