Definitions
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
Word origin
From Middle English abstraccyone; either from Middle French abstraction or from Medieval Latin abstrāctiō (“separation”), from Latin abstrahō (“draw away”). Equivalent to abstract + -ion.
Used in a sentence
“The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.”
“a hermit’s abstraction”
“Holonym: induction”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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