Abstraction involves induction of ideas or the synthesis of particular facts into one general theory about something. Its opposite, specification, is the analysis or breaking-down of a general idea …

From its roots, abstraction should mean basically "something pulled or drawn away". So abstract art is art that has moved away from painting objects of the ordinary physical world in order to …

ABSTRACTION definition: an abstract or general idea or term. See examples of abstraction used in a sentence.

She's always talking in abstractions. He has a tendency toward abstraction and pretentiousness which weakens his argument.

Abstraction is the noun from the adjective abstract, which derives from the Latin abstrahere "to divert." From that, we can get the idea that an abstraction is something that is drawn away …

Definition of abstraction noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable, uncountable] (formal) a general idea not based on any particular real person, thing or situation; …

an idea so formed, or a word or term for it “honesty” and “whiteness” are abstractions