Crossword-Solution: ABSTRACTION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Abstraction | a. | The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| Abstraction | a. | The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. |
| Abstraction | a. | An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. |
| Abstraction | a. | A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. |
| Abstraction | a. | Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. |
| Abstraction | a. | The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. |
| Abstraction | a. | A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ABSTRACTION | anagram | BACONARTIST |
We have 68 clues for the answer “ABSTRACTION”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| A preoccupied state | 1 answer |
| Formless art work | 1 answer |
| divided attention | 1 answer |
| abstractedness | 1 answer |
| Preoccupied state | 2 answers |
| Something that exists only as an idea | 2 answers |
| automatism | 3 answers |
| inadvertence | 5 answers |
| ABSENCE of thought | 6 answers |
| GENERAL idea | 14 answers |
| blurredness | 15 answers |
| otherworldliness | 15 answers |
| departed spirit | 16 answers |
| false light | 17 answers |
| Poltergeist | 17 answers |
| optical illusion | 20 answers |
| Wraith | 21 answers |
| doppelganger | 21 answers |
| spectre | 21 answers |
| visual fallacy | 22 answers |
| generality | 22 answers |
| abstractness | 25 answers |
| brown study | 25 answers |
| rumination | 25 answers |
| Spook | 27 answers |
| Reverie | 27 answers |
| cogitation | 30 answers |
| Intuition | 31 answers |
| Images | 32 answers |
| haunter | 35 answers |
| Theory | 36 answers |
| astral body | 39 answers |
| Brainchild | 40 answers |
| hypothesis | 41 answers |
| thoughts | 41 answers |
| contemplation | 41 answers |
| ghost | 43 answers |
| Concept | 44 answers |
| fixation | 45 answers |
| ABSORPTION ___ | 46 answers |
| Presence | 47 answers |
| Shadow | 47 answers |
| Consideration | 53 answers |
| Notion | 54 answers |
| Daydream | 62 answers |
| deprivation | 65 answers |
| Thought | 65 answers |
| preoccupation | 66 answers |
| Reflection | 66 answers |
| musing | 67 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "ABSTRACTION"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
19 +1
New Suggestion for "ABSTRACTION"
Related word tools
Sentences with ABSTRACTION (5)
For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man.
Her hour,” he went on deliberately, “when she can say, ‘there it is, at last, _wie im Traum ich_— “‘As in my dream I dreamed it, As in my will it was.’” He stood silent a moment, twisting the flower from his coat by the stem and staring at the blank wall with haggard abstraction.
SPERBERG-McQUEEN reminded listeners that a written or printed item (e.g., a particular edition of a book) is merely a representation of the abstraction we call a text.
Although the innovative use of personality types has further illuminated the nature of the American slave system, it has tended to blur the individual experiences and contributions of millions of Africans into a vague amorphous abstraction.
Bartley’s abstraction and Wilson’s reflections were cut short by a rustle at the door, and almost before they could rise Mrs.
Quotes with ABSTRACTION (3)
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history — the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out i…
Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature turtles, to swim in small lakes, big lakes, Lake Michigan, to swim in small farm ponds, creeks, rivers, giant rivers where one was swept along easefully by the current, to swim naked alone at night when yo…
Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of the nature of the subjective *a-priori*. In both cases the object must 'order itself' according to the rules of the knowing mind or its functions, irrespective of whether the specific function of cognition is based on a systematic construction, synthetization, formation of the object from 'given' sensational material or on a methodical s…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).