Abstraction

abstraction
noun

  1. the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
  2. freedom from representational qualities in art.
  3. a state of preoccupation.
  4. the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments.
Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War