ABSTRACTION Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

abstraction

noun

ab-ˈstrak-shən

as in idea

something imagined or pictured in the mind to a people who have lived under one dictatorship after another, democracy and freedom are mere abstractions

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Recent Examples of abstraction There’s a difference between holding power accountable and treating Jewish lives as an abstraction. —

David Ingber, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026 My career as a deputy public defender has also taught me that the people who appear in court are not abstractions. —

Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Daily News, 3 June 2026 The reader is meant to fill those abstractions—what injustice is? —

Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026 By assigning a location, a water estimate, and an energy profile to facilities that often exist only as abstractions, the tool gives residents a concrete starting point for understanding what is being built near them. —

Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for abstraction

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Since his Pop Art paintings in the early ‘60s at London’s Royal College of Art, Hockney was rarely out of the limelight and, more importantly, rarely out of fresh ideas for how to draw, paint, film, print, photograph or otherwise express his creativity.

— Barbara Isenberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
In the end, an inexperienced minor – who has no idea who hired them – pulls the trigger.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 June 2026