Synonyms of abstractions

abstractions

noun

plural of abstraction

as in notions

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 & Similar Words

• notions
• ideas
• concepts
• thoughts
• conceptions
• pictures
• impressions
• images
• cogitations
• perceptions
• observations
• reflections
• intellections
• theories
• assumptions
• prejudices
• hunches
• illusions
• beliefs
• preconceptions
• apprehensions
• presentiments
• premonitions
• phantasms
• delusions
• mind's eyes
• vagaries
• hypotheses
• chimeras
• conceits
• hallucinations
• cognitions
• whims
• prepossessions
• convictions
• caprices
• speculations
• conjectures
• guesses
• fancies
• inspirations
• kinks
• conclusions
• suppositions
• brain waves
• surmises
• brainstorms
• freaks
• brainchildren

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of abstractions

Preliterate people don’t focus on such abstractions as taking a periodic population census and recording it for posterity. — James Coffin, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

One of Lichtenstein’s takes on Monet in this show features the cathedral buried beneath a matrix of black dots set atop a deep blue background, in what may count as an allusion to Ad Reinhardt’s blue-on-blue abstractions of the ’50s. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

For much of the post-9/11 era, Muslims appeared in American culture as abstractions. — Ayman M. Mohyeldin, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026

These numbers are not abstractions, and trust may be the nonprofit sector’s most valuable currency. — Brian Peckrill, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

The film is downright Tarkovskian for its initial hour, unspooling through eerie abstractions that heighten its lingering domestic turmoil. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026

Certain practical and loving people viewed abstractions as attempts to escape, and thus a way of failing at what was essential in life. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

Billy’s main creative outlet in her years of solitude has been visual art, and her work—abstractions dominated by the geometric forms of Little Death’s air-vent face—seems like a closed circuit of self-therapy. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 31 July 2026

Yet American students and scholars flocked in droves to theory, perceiving in its recondite abstractions a thrilling new way of understanding the world—even, some believed, of changing it. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026