ABSTRACTION — Definition of ABSTRACTION
noun
1
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
2
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
3
The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
4
Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
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