concreteness

Example Sentences

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We all value precision in claims as compared to vagueness and concreteness as compared to abstractness.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023

The concreteness is partly what’s nudging you in the right direction.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

The incident gave concreteness to the dim sense of cosmic disfavor beginning to take hold in me.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Our reviewer, Maud Newton, praised the book, writing, “It’s the concreteness of Wagner’s own search, in all its messy detail and lingering uncertainties, that underscores our interconnectedness.”

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

The errors, then, lie not in the abstractness or concreteness, not in geometry or physics, but in a calculator who does not know how to make a true accounting.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton