Abstraction | Mean of abstraction in English Dictionary
/æbˈstrækʃən/
- Noun
- the act of obtaining or removing something from a source
- abstraction of data from hospital records
- a general idea or quality rather than an actual person, object, or event
- “Beauty” and “truth” are abstractions.
- the abstraction [=abstract quality] of his ideas
- the state of someone who is not paying attention to what is happening or being said
- She gazed out the window in abstraction.
