Difference between Ideational and Abstract

What is the difference between Ideational and Abstract?

Ideational as an adjective is consisting of or referring to ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses while Abstract as an adjective is extracted.

Ideational

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: consisting of or referring to ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses

Abstract

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An abridgement or summary.Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.An abstraction; an abstract term.An abstract work of art.That which is abstract.A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Extracted.Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.Absent in mind.Apart from practice or reality; not concrete; ideal; vague; theoretical; impersonal.Difficult to understand; abstruse.Free from representational qualities.General (as opposed to particular).Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To separate; to remove; to take away.To withdraw.(euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.To create artistic abstractions of.To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself.To draw off (interest or attention).To extract by means of distillation.To withdraw oneself; to retire.To perform the process of abstraction.To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".

Example sentence: Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

We hope you now know whether to use Ideational or Abstract in your sentence.

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