abstractive

/æbˈstræktɪv/
adjective
  1. Having the quality of or involving abstraction; tending to think in or use abstract ideas rather than concrete details.
    • Children develop abstractive reasoning skills as they grow older.
    • Her abstractive thinking allowed her to see patterns others missed.
    • The abstractive process of summarizing a long novel into a single sentence is challenging.
  2. Relating to the act of separating or removing something from a larger whole.
    • In linguistics, abstractive analysis looks at how sounds are extracted from speech.
    • The abstractive method in chemistry involves isolating a pure substance from a mixture.
    • The engineer used an abstractive technique to simplify the complex system.
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