concreteness

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noun

The state of being concrete.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

nounconcreteness (countable and uncountable, plural concretenesses)

plural concretenesses

  1. uncountableThe state of being concrete.
    1 more example

    Just as [absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others] is the whole positive content of perfection, so CW, or the conception of the Creator-and-the-Whole-of-what-he-has-created as constituting one life, the super-whole which in its everlasting essence is uncreated (and does not necessitate just the parts which the whole has) but in its de facto concreteness is created – this panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

    1941, Charles Hartshorne, Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Bros., →OCLC, page 348
  2. countableThe result of being concrete.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe quality of being concrete (not abstract)

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Czech konkrétnost
  • konkrétnostthe state of being concrete
Finnish konkretia, konkreettisuus
  • konkretiathe state of being concrete
  • konkreettisuusthe state of being concrete
Irish nithiúlacht
  • nithiúlachtthe state of being concrete
Italian concretezza
  • concretezzathe state of being concrete
Latvian konkrētums, konkrētība
  • konkrētumsthe state of being concrete
  • konkrētībathe state of being concrete
Norwegian Bokmål konkrethet, konkrethet
  • konkrethetthe state of being concrete
  • konkrethetthe result of being concrete
Portuguese concretitude
  • concretitudethe state of being concrete
Russian конкре́тность, конкре́тность
  • конкре́тность (konkrétnostʹ)the state of being concrete
  • конкре́тность (konkrétnostʹ)the result of being concrete
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APA

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Chicago

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