Abstraction and Fancy

Abstraction

Abstraction noun - Something imagined or pictured in the mind.
Usage example: to a people who have lived under one dictatorship after another, democracy and freedom are mere abstractions

Fancy and abstraction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fancy" instead a noun "Abstraction".

Fancy

Fancy noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.

Abstraction and fancy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Abstraction" instead a noun "Fancy".

How words are described

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