concretization
- noun
- /kɒŋˌkriːtəˈzeɪʃən/
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concretización
- The architect emphasized the concretization of her ideas through detailed models and sketches.
The things you perceive are concretizations of your aim.
- The things you perceive are concretizations of your aim.
- We don't have to have a historical concretization or situating in order to appreciate them.
Examples
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The things you perceive are concretizations of your aim.
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We don't have to have a historical concretization or situating in order to appreciate them.
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Through concretization, we lose a multitude of possibilities: we close the way to them.
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The work's recipient does not influence the work itself at all; he or she participates only in a particular concretization of the work.
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He uses the concept of "concretization," introduced into literary theory by Roman Ingarden, and exposes its limits.
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The author has left this perspective open and indeterminate, and so the reader is perfectly free to include this unspecified possibility in his concretization of the narrative.
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Let us situate Dolezel's justifiable misgivings within the wider context of the problem of concretization.
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In therapy, concretization can assist individuals in transforming vague feelings into specific goals.
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Concretization helps students turn abstract theories into tangible projects they can understand.
Synonyms
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Treating ideas or feelings as if they were a real thing you can touch
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The process of turning an idea into something real or making it seem real
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An idea or plan that becomes real and takes a clear form
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Treating an idea as a real thing
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A process in which an idea or plan becomes clear and fixed
Making an idea or plan into something real
Antonyms
How Concrete
Surface Forms
Morphology
concretization = concretize (transparent) = concrete + ize + ation
The abstract-to-concrete sense is a direct figurative extension of 'concrete' → 'concretize' → 'concretization', using productive morphology.
Etymology
Concretization shares roots con- ('together') and crescere ('to grow') with the word concrete, which suggests something 'solid' or 'real', and a helpful way to remember it is to think of an idea 'growing together' into a clear thing. So concretization means making an abstract idea more specific, real, or concrete.