| abstraction | a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples |
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| abstraction | the act of withdrawing or removing something |
| abstraction | an abstract painting |
| abstraction | preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else |
| abstraction | the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances |
| abstraction | a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance |
| abstraction | an abstract genre of art |
| abstraction | a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples |
| abstraction | a painter of abstract pictures |
| abstraction | not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature |