abstraction

Part of speech: noun

An abstracting.

Part of speech: noun

An abstract idea; something unreal.

Part of speech: noun

Removal; theft.

Part of speech: noun

Absence of mind.

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Usage examples "abstraction":

  1. Most likely he wished her to think that his abstraction was too great to allow him to notice her light footfall; he would make it easy for her to pass him- a man's eyes can only see what they are looking at. - "Lover or Friend", Rosa Nouchette Carey.
  2. He downed half the goblet- full, set it down, and went to a painting, a brutal scarlet and apple- green abstraction, that hung on the wall. - "Time Crime", H. Beam Piper.
  3. But Hannah's face was very pale, and she was most unusually quiet all that day, falling into fits of abstraction as if her thoughts were far away. - "Bessie Bradford's Prize", Joanna H. Mathews.