the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events

topics will vary in degrees of abstraction

freedom from representational qualities in art

geometric abstraction has been a mainstay in her work

a state of preoccupation

she sensed his momentary abstraction

the process of considering something independently of its associations or attributes

the question cannot be considered in abstraction from the historical context in which it was raised

the process of removing something, especially water from a river or other source

the abstraction of water from springs and wells

abstractions from the Lowther in Cumbria