A concept that is not physical. All perception of language & thoughts are abstract.
Cultural Definition
(now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
(archaic) Absent-minded. [First attested in the early 16th century.]
(art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century. [First attested in the mid 19th century.] (music) Absolute. (dance) Lacking a story.
Insufficiently factual.
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
(computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
An abridgement or summary. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of larger item, or multiple items. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
Concentrated essence of a product. (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
(art) An abstract work of art. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
an object with no physical referents
Pattern Expression
An abstract concept is a pattern that is applicable anywhere in Existence.
Human words are abstract. Any entity in Existence can be represented as an abstract concept.