abstraction *
abstract entity

It became an untouchable entity, abstract, larger than life.

A 'number' is an abstract entity used to describe quantity.

Time is an abstract entity and is conceived only through the changes that take, place around us.

It is not a thought, or an abstract entity.

Many abstract mathematical entities are held to exist simply because they are useful.

But I do ask what, between the lot of them, has become of the abstract entity called education.

These are abstract entities of discourse, not concrete objects.

In this day and age, diplomacy is a thing between specific persons, not abstract political entities.

Why do people try to mystify the market as if it's some abstract entity?

Now that she had reached its roaring heart, the church did not seem like such a distant, abstract entity.