abstraction

abstraction

noun

Definition 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

Near Antonyms actuality, fact, reality