Crossword-Solution: ABSTRACTION 11 letters, 68 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.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"

Answer (solution)
Clue

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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
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.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
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.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
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.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Bartley’s abstraction and Wilson’s reflections were cut short by a rustle at the door, and almost before they could rise Mrs.
Alexander’s Bridge and The Barrel Organ Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes 1993

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…
Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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…
Jim Harrison The Man Who Gave Up His Name
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…
Max Scheler
Where this answer appears

Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).