concreteness

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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

And you have Clement Greenberg and concreteness in art, and that minimalism is not representational.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2020

In the history of the novel, there’s long been a connection between a kind of concreteness, or aesthetic reticence, and an idea of “manliness.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2018

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