abstract concept
abstract notion

I cannot remember a time where death was not a reality rather than an abstract concept.

The abstract concept of work, he points out, is a modern one.

Present only one idea at a time, and avoid talking about abstract concepts.

As a result, the late budget becomes an abstract concept.

During this time, people develop the ability to think about abstract concepts.

It works much less well when you get into abstract concepts like beauty.

Children are not ready to understand abstract concepts of volume until a certain age.

All the art will explore the meaning of space as an abstract concept.

The law is not a mere theory or an abstract concept.

Death was no longer an abstract concept, but a very real, impending event.

And how can one remove an abstract concept at all?"

The most abstract concepts are those that present themselves to our consciousness immediately.

Enterprises are not an abstract concept, and getting involved means making freedom a reality.

For the international community is not an abstract concept, it consists of us ourselves.

But so few admit its existence except as an abstract concept.

It was all images and abstract concepts for which no words existed.

Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain.

These two institutions differ from each other in the level students learn abstract concepts.

Fear had been an abstract concept before this moment, no matter how much she'd thought herself capable of it.

Naturally it had not been just a struggle over abstract concepts.

"The idea of a calorie is a very abstract concept," she said.

Words are only essential to put across more abstract concepts and intellectual ideas.

Specific objects seen by one were difficult to describe to others, and abstract concepts even more so.

And that's the problem: grammar is an extremely abstract concept.

But these words are abstract concepts that no one is capable of defining.

That can be tough in a bull market, when risk is an abstract notion.

They cannot, however, grasp abstract notions of God and religion.

Resources are an abstract notion and they cannot be manipulated directly.

As his physician, my first responsibility is to him, not to some abstract notion of social justice.

The threat to this expedition was now no longer an abstract notion, but a reality.

But what is there positive in your abstracted notion of its existence?

He had let the abstract notion carry him away.

You always talk about this abstract notion of freedom.

Rather, he seems to play with the abstract notions of repetition and multiplicity.

Loyalty to the family, the clan and the community comes above any abstract notion of public duty or service to the state.

But these verses are also concerned with less abstract notions: love, and love's uncertainties.

If we enact an abstract notion of responsibility into policy, the consequences will not be as intended.

Since nobody knows exactly what those abstract notions mean, alarm bells have gone off all over Europe.

"This is not just the abstract notion of competition.

"It is important, I believe, to represent the crucifixion as state murder, not an abstract notion of death in general."

It places gender as more of an abstract notion and something that is appropriate in certain contexts rather than separate from them.

Has this abstract notion ever come so alive?

Here, the story is in the details that go beyond the abstract notions of separateness and inequality.

Others followed suit, not yet grasping the abstract notion of what sort of economy that was.

He wanted to put that face on the abstract notion of "my land, Valdemar."

As performed here, this literal, and visually striking, illustration of an abstract notion is quite moving.

But the playwright in Shakespeare knew he couldn't simply stage a dull discussion of abstract notions.

Won't be able to make that abstract notion concrete."

There is also an abstract notion of conjugation for vector spaces over the complex numbers.

Little by little abstract notions grew into concrete things.