# in the weeds (abstraction)

*Ordinarily means:* Deep in the details and unable to see the bigger picture.

Being so deep in the parts of a thing that the boundary of the whole can no longer be seen, and its state cannot be told from inside.

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday language

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-state.condition), [inside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inside.spatial), [whole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-whole.complete), [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation), [abstraction](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-abstraction.process)

**Through:** in-the-weeds.abstraction

**Novel properties:**
- emergence.novel_properties

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-the-weeds.abstraction.json*  
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