1. in a way that is based on general ideas and not any particular real person, thing or situation
   • ● Young children may not have the ability to think abstractly.

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2. (in art) not representing people or things in a realistic way, but expressing the artist's ideas about them
   • ● She began to paint abstractly again.

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