See Also: abstraction(medicine)
abstraction(dictionary)
abstraction(dictionary)

abstraction (oh)



[C] a general idea about a type of situation, thing, or person rather than a specific example from real life
::He's always talking in abstractions.
[U] when you do not notice what is happening around you because you are thinking carefully about something else
::She rocked the baby gently, gazing in abstraction at the flickering fire.
[U] the use of shapes and patterns that do not look like real things