concreteness
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- noun
- /ˈkɒŋkrɪtnəs/
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concreción
- His argument lacked concreteness, making it hard for others to understand his point.
- the misplaced concreteness
- the fallacy of misplaced concreteness
- emphasize the concreteness
Here he says that the typical ultra abstractionist shutters at concreteness.
- Here he says that the typical ultra abstractionist shutters at concreteness.
Examples
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The teacher emphasized the importance of concreteness in her explanations to help students grasp the concepts.
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The architect focused on the concreteness of the designs, ensuring that clients could visualize the final outcome.
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By "future events," I mean the events in all their concreteness.
Academic text (1991) -
The worker saw that Ben might resolve some of these issues in an atmosphere of acceptance, concreteness, and structure.
Academic text (2001) -
And it kind of depends on the concreteness of the words and also depends on how you depict the images.
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So what strikes me is the concreteness and vividness of these phrases.
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The confrontation with the reality and concreteness of genocide is particularly difficult.
Academic text (1999) -
In a similar fashion, a magazine's contents also convey an impression of concreteness absent in other forms of media.
Academic text (1995) -
Observation is facilitated by focusing attention on three levels of concreteness.
Academic text (1993) -
Ponge's interest in language's concreteness and its affinities with art has received considerable critical attention.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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7.9
Physical existence of something you can touch or see
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7.2
Being made of things you can touch
The state of being able to be touched or felt
Antonyms
How Concrete
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12
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word concreteness comes from concrete, the hard building material, plus -ness. Think of concrete as 'solid' and 'real', so concreteness means being specific and about things you can touch or clearly imagine.