adjective
- thought of apart from any particular instances or material objects; not concrete
- expressing a quality thought of apart from any particular or material object: beauty is an abstract word
- not easy to understand because of being extremely complex, remote from concrete reality, etc.; abstruse
- theoretical; not practical or applied
- designating or of art abstracted from reality, in which designs or forms may be definite and geometric or fluid and amorphous: a generic term that encompasses various nonrealistic contemporary schools
Origin:
< L abstractus, pp. of abstrahere, to draw from, separate < ab(s)-, from + trahere, to draw