A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance.

synonym: abstract.

Roget 791: stealing etc. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny^†, direption^†; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism^†; latrocinium^†.    spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage^†; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia^†, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.    piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.    filibustering, filibusterism^†; burglary; housebreaking; badger game [Slang].    robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.    peculation, embezzlement; fraud etc. 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting.    thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia^†, den of Cacus, den of thieves.    blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].    [person who commits theft] thief etc. 792.    ... show more

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; reception etc. (taking in) 296; deglutition etc. (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation^†; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension^†; abreption^†, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal etc. 38; abstraction, ademption^†; adrolepsy^†.    dispossession; deprivation, deprivement^†; bereavement; divestment; disherison^†; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction etc. 297.    rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft etc. 791.    resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery etc. 775.    clutch, swoop, wrench; grip etc. (retention) 781; haul, take, catch; scramble.    taker, captor.    [Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate] subduction [Geol.].    ... show more

Roget 458: inattention, inconsideration; inconsiderateness etc. adj.; oversight; inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard.    supineness etc. (inactivity) 683; etourderie [Fr.], want of thought; heedlessness etc. (neglect) 460; insouciance etc. (indifference) 866.    abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction.    ... show more

Roget 38: subtraction, subduction^†; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation^†; abstraction etc. (taking) 789; garbling, etc. v.. mutilation, detruncation^†; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment etc. 201; minuend, subtrahend; decrease etc. 36; abrasion.    ... show more

Dutch: abstract, abstractie
Polish: abstrakcja

The act of withdrawing or removing something.

Dutch: abstractie, extractie

The process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances.

synonyms: generalisation, generalization.

Dutch: generalisatie, inductie
Polish: abstrakcja, abstrakt

An abstract painting.

Polish: abstrakcja

Preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else.

synonym: abstractedness.

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction^†; cataclasm^†; inconnection^†; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness etc. adj.; severalty; disjecta membra [Lat.]; dispersion etc. 73; apportionment etc. 786.    separation; parting etc. v.; circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction^†, seposition^†, diduction^†, diremption^†, discerption^†; elision; caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture; compartition^†; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation^†; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration^†; disruption, abruption^†; avulsion^†, divulsion^†; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility^†, separability.    fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.    dissection anatomy; decomposition etc. 49; cutting instrument etc. (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.    separatist.    ... show more

A general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples.

synonym: abstract entity.