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Saying "you look nice' instead of "that color of dress looks good on you" is an example of

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This is an example of "Abstraction".
Precisely abstraction refers to the result or outcome of a whole process, for example in the given statement the whole process of dressing up and selecting the color etc are skipped and a direct comment “You look nice”, is stated.
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