Abstract is a verb that means disregard, not giving much importance or not taking something into account. It's not giving so much importance to an event or an issue.
Abstracting can also be understood as being oblivious or being "out of oneself". If a person is abstracted, it means that he is not paying attention to what is happening around him.
The verb can also be used to mean high ability to concentrate or focus attention. In this sense, the word can take on the meaning of extreme attention to details or multiple aspects of a given subject.
This meaning is used in Philosophy and refers to the separation of a complex element into several parts that are analyzed separately.
Examples:
You must abstract why the subject is not that important.
To get a good grade in this test, it is necessary to abstract all the contents of the subject.
By etymology the word derives from the Latin term abstract.
See also the meaning of Abstraction.
Synonyms and Antonyms of abstracting
| Synonyms | Antonyms |
|---|---|
| despise | Add |
| dispense | Include |
| Disregard | To compute |
| Repel | Get together |
| Disperse | To focus |
| dislike | materialize |