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Vocabulary Entry
abstraction
|noun • verb
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N
noun
The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
Example Sentences
"The artist's abstraction allowed viewers to interpret the painting in many ways."
"In mathematics, abstraction helps to simplify complex problems."
"The essay focused on the abstraction of social concepts in modern sociology."
V
verb
To make an idea or concept more general or to extract the essence from something.
Example Sentences
"The scientists aimed to abstraction the results of their experiments."
"She tried to abstraction the main themes from the lengthy text."
"It's important to abstraction the essential details when summarizing."