abstraction vs quantity

quantity vs abstraction

abstraction and quantity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
abstraction	Yes	No	No	No
quantity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, quantity is a hyponym of abstraction; that is, quantity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than abstraction:

abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
quantity: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

Other hyponyms of abstraction include psychological feature, attribute, event, group, grouping, relation, communication, amount, measure, otherworld, set.

abstraction (noun)	quantity (noun)
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples	how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
the act of withdrawing or removing something	an adequate or large amount
an abstract painting	the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable
a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

Difference between abstraction and quantity

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