Abstraction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSTRACTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of abstracting
• something which exists only as an idea
• an abstract work of art
• the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events
• freedom from representational qualities in art
• a state of preoccupation
• the process of considering something independently of its associations or attributes
• the process of removing something, especially water from a river or other source
• a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
• the act of withdrawing or removing something
• the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
• an abstract painting
• preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
• a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
ADJECTIVE:
• The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
• The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
• An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
• A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit\'s abstraction.
• Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
• The taking surreptitiously for one\'s own use part of the property of another; purloining.
• A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of abstracting; the state of being abstracted; an abstract idea or term

Words related to ABSTRACTION

abstractional17 abstractions16 abstractive18 abstractively23 abstractives19

Words that contain ABSTRACTION

abstractions16 abstractional17 abstractionism20 abstractionist18 abstractionisms21 abstractionists19 semiabstraction21 overabstraction22 semiabstractions22

How to use ABSTRACTION in a sentence

• The row waked the Nigger from his sullen abstraction.
• As he drew closer he saw that most of them seemed fixed in gloomy abstraction.
• Marston thanked him, and, lost in abstraction, rode down to the little inn, entered a sitting room, and wrote a hurried line to Dr.
• I own this to have been a strain of abstraction beyond my reach.
• We apply the term space to extension in general, as an abstraction, and body to a given individual, determinate, limited extension.
• Pilate executed an abstraction that had never existed in the real.
• For instance, Cossey and Son are an abstraction and harshly disposed in their abstract capacity, but Mr.
• It seemed incredible to me that this man, whose intelligence had so early dominated mine, this great abstraction, should suddenly realise itself as this decrepit, familiar figure.
• It was only as these movements caught his eye, that Wilder seemed to be thoroughly awakened from his abstraction, and to pursue his observations with an undivided mind.
• None the less, there floated out of the mist of abstraction an instantly vanishing phantom of half-recognition for the Westerner.
• Then his abstraction passed, and he summoned the man on the roof.
• The first part should include only Registered Letters, the cases of entire loss of the letter being entered separately from cases of abstraction of the contents of the letter.
• God not an Abstraction, but a real Being, a moral person, 703-l.
• Soul not a mere abstraction, but a reality including in itself life and thought, 397-l.
• What the book was I have not the least idea, but I perused it with an appearance of profound abstraction which I hoped might discourage advances on the part of Captain Magnus.
• And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
• Her design and her scrutiny were easier of prosecution that, during the last few minutes, Faircloth had retired into silence, and an attitude of abstraction.
• He had been right on the point of admitting that she had been the cause of his abstraction, and such a statement as that would have called for an abundance of further explanation.
• By saying, for example, that God is simply One, the Supreme Being as such, we express thereby nothing but a lifeless abstraction of an understanding devoid of reason.
• Her absolute first choice, perhaps, is not a living man at all, but a supernatural abstraction in a book, say, one of the heroes of Hall Caine, Ethel M.
• In saying that, we set ourselves outside the truth in a kind of abstraction.
• He did not know how heavily his strange abstraction and hallucinations weighed upon their honest hearts.
• Then they lunched, and the only sign that Katharine gave of abstraction was to forget to help the pudding.
• Longstreet, glancing at his companion and noting his abstraction, was glad that there were no questions to answer.
• A dark abstraction hung over her, and it was so strange, so foreign to her nature.

Similar words containing ABSTRAC without suffix tion

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