Meaning & use
abstraction
A general idea or quality considered apart from any specific, concrete example or instance.
See it in a sentence
The lecture moved from concrete examples to a broader abstraction about human motivation.
Freedom is an abstraction that means something different to nearly everyone.
A note on using this word
Abstraction contrasts with the concrete; in art and computing it also describes a simplified or generalized representation of something.
Words with a similar meaning
conceptgeneralization
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Words with an opposite meaning
concretion
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