CONCRETISATION Antonyms

• a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

• the act of withdrawing or removing something

• the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

• an abstract painting

• preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else

• a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

• an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation

• a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples

• an elaborated concept

• an idea or conclusion having general application

• the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability

• a portrayal of something as ideal

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

• something that exists only as an idea

• complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration

• the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter

• a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena

• a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

• a belief that can guide behavior

• unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning

• indistinctness of shape or character