Synonyms for abstraction
æbˈstræk ʃənab·strac·tion

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1. abstractionnoun

   Antonyms:
   concretization, specialization

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abstraction

   Synonyms:
   separation, purloining, removal, appropriation, generalization, classification, reverie, absorption, inattention, absence

   Antonyms:
   addition, conjunction, union, adduction, importation, restoration, restitution, individualization, enumeration, analysis, specification, observation, attention

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1. abstraction, abstractnoun

   a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

   "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

   Synonyms:
   generalisation, generalization, abstract, abstract entity, outline, synopsis, precis, abstractedness

2. abstractionnoun

   the act of withdrawing or removing something

   Synonyms:
   abstract entity, generalisation, abstractedness, generalization, abstract

3. abstraction, generalization, generalisationnoun

   the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

   Synonyms:
   generalisation, generalization, generality, abstract, abstract entity, stimulus generalization, induction, abstractedness, stimulus generalisation, inductive reasoning

4. abstractionnoun

   an abstract painting

   Synonyms:
   abstract entity, generalisation, abstractedness, generalization, abstract

5. abstractedness, abstractionnoun

   preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else

   Synonyms:
   generalization, abstract entity, generalisation, abstractedness, abstract

6. abstraction, abstract entitynoun

   a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

   Synonyms:
   abstract entity, generalisation, abstractedness, generalization, abstract

Matched Categories

1. • Concept
   • Painting
   • Preoccupation
   • Removal
   • Theorization

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abstractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   separation, disconnection, disjunction, isolation

2. abstractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   preoccupation, inattention, revery, musing, muse, absence, absence of mind, brown study

3. abstractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   taking, abduction, seizure, appropriation, stealing, purloining, pilfering

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1. abstractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   separation, disconnection, withdrawal, inattention, absent-mindedness, preoccupation, musing, defiliation, purloining, seizure, stealing

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1. List of paraphrases for "abstraction":

   extraction, capture, removal, abduction, abstract

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How to use abstraction in a sentence?

1. Justin Mankin:

   One of the challenges is the abstraction that global warming presents. What is increasingly clear is that those impacts are not felt equally across the world.

2. Abraham Harold Maslow:

   Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

3. Walter Lippmann:

   Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

4. Cobb Scott:

   There have been a couple of meta-analyses done in adult samples, but this is the first one to be done specifically in adolescent and young adult samples, we looked at everything from learning and memory to different aspects of executive functioning such as abstraction ability.

5. Cobb Scott:

   We looked at everything from learning and memory to different aspects of executive functioning such as abstraction ability, and we basically showed that the largest effects -- which was around a third of a standard deviation -- was in the learning of new information and some aspects of executive functioning, memory and speed of processing.