abstractions

Noun

• a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
• the act of withdrawing or removing something
• the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
• an abstract painting
• preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
• a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
• plural of abstraction

Synonyms

abstract, abstract entity, abstractedness, abstraction, generalisation, generalization