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abstract idea
noun
An idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure.
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Abortion, for many men, is an abstract idea.
Climate change is not, as Franzen writes, an abstract idea.
An abstract idea is probably the strongest thing there is".
"In a way, it is an abstract idea," she said.
If it is a more abstract idea, then music helps.
"It's a visual way to get an abstract idea across".
But an abstract idea is made tangible in Young Chekhov.
But the fire was just an abstract idea.
Mrs. Lawrence added: "When people in Washington talk about millionaires, it's just an abstract idea.
"People dislike the idea of changing their behaviour for an abstract idea," he says.
"The veneration of an abstract idea," he explains, "is somewhat alien to China's practical mind-set".
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