concreteness

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being concrete.

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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. Sergei Eisenstein

It is the sphere farthest removed from the concreteness of society which may show most clearly the extent of the conquest of thought by society. Herbert Marcuse

We are no longer tempted to condemn the spiritual aspects of our nature as illusory because of their lack of concreteness. Arthur Eddington

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. Milan Kundera

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry. Louis Dudek

This is not seeing the trees instead of the forest, this is seeing the bark on the trees, this very concreteness. Robert Sapolsky

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