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

That sounds abstract, but the movie’s bitter achievement is in its granular, ground-level concreteness.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022

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

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

But the concreteness of being outdoors was another matter—like the difference between the concept of death and being, in fact, dead.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison