Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
Lacking a story.
Absolute.
Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
Insufficiently factual.
To draw off (interest or attention).
He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
To separate; to disengage.
To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
To create abstractions.
To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
To remove; to take away; withdraw.
To perform the process of abstraction.
To withdraw oneself; to retire.
A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
Concentrated essence of a product.
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
An abstract work of art.
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
A member of the Academy; an academician.
A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
Academic studies.
Academic dress; academicals.