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— English words —

• abstraction n. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
• abstraction n. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one’s senses.
• abstraction n. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics;…
• abstraction n. Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object…
• abstraction n. A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
• abstraction n. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the…
• abstraction n. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
• abstraction n. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
• abstraction n. (Art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
• abstraction n. (Chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
• abstraction n. An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
• abstraction n. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis…
• abstraction n. (Geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so…
• abstraction n. (Computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality…
• abstraction n. (Computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• abstraction n. Abstractie.

— English word, defined in French —

• abstraction n. Abstraction.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• abstraction s. Abstracción.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• abstraction s. Abstração.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• abstraction s. (Filosofia) astrazione.
• abstraction s. Estrazione.
• abstraction s. Distrazione.
• abstraction s. Sottrazione, furto.
• abstraction s. (Arte) astrazione.

— In French —

• abstraction n.f. Opération par laquelle l’esprit abstrait, sépare, isole…
• abstraction n.f. Idée générale, type ou propriété, qualité séparée par l’esprit…
• abstraction n.f. (Péjoratif) Idée trop métaphysique ; théorie générale qui…
• abstraction n.f. (Au pluriel) Préoccupation, rêverie qui empêche un homme…

122 English words from 15 English definitions

Absence absorption abstract abstracted abstracting abstraction according according␣to act and any are art artwork as␣a␣whole aspects away been being between capture characteristic characteristics Chemistry commonality comparing Computing construct contemplated creation deepening defines details distillation distinct focusing free from generalization Geology group has hides idea idealistic idealized ignores inattention individual intellectual involving kind kind␣of larger life member mental mentally merging mind much nature notion object objects of␣an one organizing parts piece piece␣of␣art preoccupation present process produced product qualities quality rather rather␣than recluse representational result river senses separated separating separation similarities some some␣kind␣of so␣much so␣much␣so state state␣of␣being subgroup synthesis taken taken␣away taking taking␣away technique than that the theoretical those through to␣the two unrealistic using valleys visionary volatile when which whole widening withdrawal withdrawing worldly

7 English words from 13 foreign definitions

Abstraction esprit Idée par rêverie trop type

1 foreign word from 15 English definitions

has␣been

27 foreign words from 13 foreign definitions

Abstração Abstracción Abstractie abstrait Arte astrazione Distrazione empêche Estrazione Filosofia furto générale homme isole laquelle métaphysique Opération Péjoratif pluriel Préoccupation propriété qualité qui sépare séparée Sottrazione théorie

8 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

abstractions abstractional abstractionism abstractionist abstractionisms abstractionists abstractionistic abstractionistically

3 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

semiabstractions leaky␣abstractions lambda␣abstractions

4 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

semiabstraction leaky␣abstraction lambda␣abstraction eccentric␣abstraction

40 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

abs Abs ABs ABS A♭s abs- abs. A.B.s abstr. abstract act Act ACT act. Act. A.C.T. A.␣C.␣T. acti action BST CTI ion Ion -ion RAC rac- RACT str STR str. stra. tio Tio tion -tion tra TRA tract tracti traction

31 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

art Art ART 'art art. arts Arts ARTS arts. car Car CAR cart Cart CART carts Carts CARTs ITC NOI noit OIt OIT rts RTs RTS SBA TCA T-cart T-carts TSB

3 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

abstractions asterobactin carbonatites

4 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

action␣star arctations boat␣trains castration

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

abstriction

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