| word | abstraction |
|---|---|
| definition | The consideration of a thing or idea without associating it with a particular example. |
| eg_sentence | All the ideas she came up with in class were abstractions, since she had no experience of actual nursing at all. |
| explanation | 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 show something beyond it. Theories are often abstractions; so a theory about economics, for instance, may “pull back” to take a broad view that somehow explains all of economics (but maybe doesn't end up explaining any of it very successfully). An abstract of a medical or scientific article is a one-paragraph summary of its contents—that is, the basic findings “pulled out” of the article |
| IPA | æbˈstrækʃən |
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