verb
- Consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.
- synonyms: abstract
- Make off with belongings of others.
- Consider apart from a particular case or instance.
- usage: "Let's abstract away from this particular example"
- synonyms: abstract
- Give an abstract (of.
- synonyms: abstract
adjective
- Lost in thought; showing preoccupation.
- usage: "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
- synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty
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