Abstract

Verb 1. To descend into a feeling of abject madness or rage, often tantamount to having a nervous breakdown. 2. To be fiending hard for a substance, experience, or thing, to the point where it can cause a degree of minor insanity. Origin: The term “abstract” is a direct reference to the web-series “The Amazing Digital Circus”, where abstraction refers to the phenomena of losing one’s mind and bodily integrity due to total and complete insanity. It is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the mental strain required to cause abstraction, and is mostly used somewhat hyperbolically within conversation. The term was first used around early November 2023 among a digital circus fan who was fiending for a cigarette, and the humor in it ended up cementing it within the fandom’s lexicon, mostly due to its comedic and referential value between fans. Alternate Forms: Abstracted (past tense) Abstraction (noun form) Abstracting (present tense)