asstraction

A social situation that entails the diversion of one's attention from a current matter of business to another's behind, usually causing an embarrassing situation and/or car accident.

"Remember that girl from the store who was causing a total asstraction? She was pretty."

by Jon Mathews December 20, 2007

Asstration

The act of clenching your sphincter so tight during anal intercourse that your partner's penis is removed.

A play on words of ass and castration.

"Dude, did you hear that Joey's in the hospital?"

"Yeah, that bitch Becky gave him an Asstration!"

by TheFourthReich November 5, 2015

lyrical abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction in painting is an opening to personal expression. The term was originally coined by Larry Aldrich 1; other sources sustain that it was Jean José Marchand and Georges Mathieu who first used the term Abstraction Lyrique in 1947 in Paris. The name "Tachisme" is sometimes used to describe this movement.

Some notable painters "inspired" in this "style" are: Wassily Kandinsky considered one of the fathers of abstraction, Paul Klee, Frank Kupka, Robert Delaunay, Mordecai Ardon, Norman Bluhm, Jean René Bazaine, Hans Hartung, Wols, Max Bill, Gunther Gerzso, Huguette Arthur Bertrand, Georges Mathieu, Jean Miotte, Ronnie Landfield and Stefan Fiedorowicz.

The emotion in my work comes from somewhere deep down, and can speak to the inner part of each person... My work is intuitive; colour is the language that I use to express an emotion. It is the interaction of colour that interests me. Stefan Fiedorowicz.

Stefan Fiedorowicz

I am a colourist who has followed the lyrical abstraction movement and I use color to convey something personal and internal... Why I choose certain objects to paint and how I illustrate them is a mystery to me. I do not think about it too much. Certain objects are close to me because of what they mean to me or what they look like, their shape. I simplify them and sometimes combine them into pleasing arrangements. I like working over the canvas surface over and over again because most of the time I am not sure of what I want, especially my abstracts done with thick colourful oils and wall scrapers. 1

by Livingston Seagul February 3, 2010

abstraction

Polite way of say "bullshit" in academia.

That paper is all abstraction: the author didn't say anything at all.

by svedn February 24, 2010

Asstruction

Object or obstruction to the ass you are trying to look at.

That fat guy is an asstruction.

by assman269 December 7, 2012

abstractional

A mode of thinking and communicating in abstract terms without being bound by a lack of certainty. Abstractional thinking in contrast to transactional thinking allows for vision and accepts uncertainty. Abstractional communications inherently allow for uncertainty and unknown facts rather than being bound by them. Abstractionists tend to be visionary and inventive types. Abstractional is a challenging paradigm for people who are uncomfortable with uncertainty, i.e. transactional people. Abstractional communication does convey tasks to achieve specific goals but rather provides a vision for achieving exceptional results that change paradigms.

Dr. Inventive is very abstractional in communicating his vision for new products and we transactional engineers don't know how to translate this into specific tasks as we don't know how to manage the uncertainty of his paradigm challenging approach to creating new products.

by Bonehead Dr. S May 10, 2018

Abstraction

It's math. Abstraction and math are the same thing.

Hym "Math is the architecture of abstraction in written form. Math is derived from abstraction. I do a lot of abstraction and... I don't need to know the math if the person reading already does" 😉

by Hym Iam July 21, 2023