abstraction
abstraction
nounDefinition of ABSTRACTION
something imagined or pictured in the mind <to a people who have lived under one dictatorship after another, democracy and freedom are mere abstractions>
Synonyms abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, image, impression, intellection, mind's eye, notion, picture, thought
Related Words apprehension, premonition, presentiment; preconception, prejudice, prepossession; chimera, delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm); caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, kink, vagary, whim; cognition, observation, perception, reflection; assumption, belief, conclusion, conviction; conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise, theory; brainchild, brainstorm, brain wave, inspiration
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