right - an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"

concept, conception, construct - an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

absolute - something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"

teacher - a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"

thing - a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"

remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"

theorisation, theorization - the production or use of theories

painting, picture - graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre"

preoccupancy, preoccupation, engrossment, absorption - the mental state of being preoccupied by something

revery, reverie - an abstracted state of absorption

time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

space - the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"

attribute - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

quantity, amount, measure - how much there is of something that you can quantify

set - (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite"