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| Main Entry: |
abstraction
 [ab-strak-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being lost in thought |
| Synonyms: | absorption, aloofness, brooding, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, daydreaming, detachment, engrossment, entrancement, musing, pensiveness, pondering, preoccupation, reflecting, reflection, remoteness, reverie, ruminating, thinking, trance |
| Main Entry: | absent-mindedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preoccupation |
| Synonyms: | absorption, abstraction, distraction, dreaminess, forgetfulness, heedlessness, inattention |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation meant to communicate or appeal to senses or mind |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, carving, description, design, illustration, imitation, modeling, molding, painting, pictorialization, portrayal, representation, sculpting, shaping, simulation, sketching, symbolization |
| Antonyms: | science |
Example Sentences
- Abstraction is inductive thought and involves the construction of options.
- The level of abstraction of these head-of-state types amazes me.
- The total energetically explores artistic process, color and abstraction.
| Main Entry: | concept |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, apprehension, approach, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, conceit, conception, conceptualization, consideration, fool notion, hypothesis, image, impression, intellection, notion, perception, slant, supposition, theory, thought, twist, view, wrinkle |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | deduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something subtracted |
| Synonyms: | abatement, abstraction, allowance, credit, cut, decrease, decrement, depreciation, diminution, discount, dockage, excision, rebate, reduction, removal, subtraction, withdrawal, write-off |
| Antonyms: | addition, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | distraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | having one's attention drawn away |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abstraction, agitation, amusement, beguilement, bewilderment, commotion, complication, confusion, disorder, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, divertissement, engrossment, entertainment, frenzy, game, interference, interruption, pastime, perplexity, preoccupation, recreation |
| Main Entry: | embezzlement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing money, often from employer |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, appropriation, defalcation, filching, fraud, larceny, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, skimming, theft, thieving |
| Antonyms: | compensation, pay, reimbursement, return |
| Main Entry: | extraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal from whole; distillation |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, derivation, drawing, elicitation, eradication, evocation, evulsion, expression, extirpation, extrication, pulling, separation, taking out, uprooting, withdrawal, wrenching, wresting |
| Antonyms: | addition, insertion, introduction |
| Main Entry: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistent inability to remember |
| Synonyms: | absentmindedness, abstraction, amnesia, blackout, blank, blockout, carelessness, dreaminess, fugue, heedlessness, hypomnesia, inattention, lapse of memory, laxness, lethe, limbo, loss of memory, negligence, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, paramnesia, repression, short memory, suppression |
| Antonyms: | attentiveness, heed, mindfulness, remembering |
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