Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at abstraction.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Abstraction.

Examples

  • Of course some of that time away from the beat is spent filling in Abstraction Forms;

    Unnecessary Police Bureaucracy – Part 1. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • So that in short, Abstraction, as ˜tis a logical Affection of Thought, is the considering one thing without another, not absolutely, but in things that are not really one without the other, nor yet really deniable one of the other.

    Motherly Advice Trace Sheridan 2009

  • The painting simply entitled "Abstraction" was sold by Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, which has earned a strong position in the American art auction market, often keeping pace with prices at Christie's and Sotheby's.

    Scarlett Fever 2008

  • The painting simply entitled "Abstraction" was sold by Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, which has earned a strong position in the American art auction market, often keeping pace with prices at Christie's and Sotheby's.

    Scarlett Fever 2008

  • Every minute dozens of decisions, large and small, are put to the public vote and the people of the Glitter Band spend much of their time engrossed in politics, employing a form of VR known as Abstraction to talk to one another, or choosing to lose themselves in fantastical reflections of the real world.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Every minute dozens of decisions, large and small, are put to the public vote and the people of the Glitter Band spend much of their time engrossed in politics, employing a form of VR known as Abstraction to talk to one another, or choosing to lose themselves in fantastical reflections of the real world.

    The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Abstraction, which is in essence the kind of thinking that characterizes primary reflection, is not always bad per se.

    Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel Treanor, Brian 2004

  • This is called Abstraction, whereby ideas taken from particular being become general representatives of all of the same kind.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

  • But "Abstraction" turns out to be, if not the Cliffs Notes, the Reader's Digest version of how modern art jettisoned representation.

    Abstract Slant 2008

  • "Abstraction," at the Institut Valencia D'Art Modern, exhibits 54 paintings and sculptures from as many artists, dating from 1913 to the present day.

    Alice Neel's Penetrating Eye 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.