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Antonyms for abstraction
æbˈstræk ʃənab·strac·tion

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  1. abstractionnoun

    Antonyms:
    concretization, specialization

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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

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  1. abstractionnoun

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

How to use abstraction in a sentence?

  1. Henry Havelock Ellis:

    Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

  2. Mark Evans:

    Botticelli fell, sank from sight for nearly 300 years. In the early 19th century he was rediscovered. The Pre-Raphaelites of course fetishised him, in the era of abstraction, Botticelli again receded into the shadows but, with pop art, he came out fighting and of course he's now one of the most celebrated global phenomena in art.

  3. Havelock Ellis:

    Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

  4. 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.

  5. Felix Adler:

    The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

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