Crossword clues for concreteness
concreteness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concreteness \Con*crete"ness\, n. The quality of being concrete.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) the state of being concrete 2 (context countable English) the result of being concrete
WordNet
n. the quality of being concrete (not abstract) [ant: abstractness]
Wikipedia
Concreteness is an aspect of communication that means being specific, definite, and vivid rather than vague and general. A concrete communication uses specific facts and figures. Concreteness is often taught in college communication courses as one of the aspects of effective communication. Counselors, attorneys, job interviewers, etc. often prod their interviewees to speak with greater concreteness. For instance, if a witness says he gave his wife "a bit of a slap," the cross-examining lawyer might ask how hard he hit her. A job interviewer will often ask probing questions to elicit more concrete information; e.g., "Could you give me an example of when you did XXX?"
Usage examples of "concreteness".
On the contrary, it is a matter of rediscovering under the partial and incomplete aspects of the subject the veritable concreteness which can be only the totality of his impulse toward being, his original relation to himself, to the world, and to the Other, in the unity of internal relations and of a fundamental project.
Absolute concreteness, completion, existence as a totality belong then to the free and fundamental desire which is the unique person.
It seemed as if every detail that made up a component element of non-ordinary reality had a concreteness of its own, a concreteness I perceived as being extraordinarily stable.
In order to appreciate the position of dreamers and dreaming , one has to understand the struggle of modern-day sorcerers to steer sorcery away from concreteness toward the abstract.
Foucault's exterior approach, his bracketing of truth and meaning, his confinement to "mute" statements (monological), his "happy positivism"these are all maneuvers of the Right-Hand path, applied not to the bone-crunching concreteness of physical-social realities but to the exterior, material, archaeological remnants of discursive practices: language looked at from the outside as a rule-governed system.
Johnson kicking the stone to confute Berkeley is not more bent on common-sense concreteness than Wagner: on all occasions he insists on the need for sensuous apprehension to give reality to abstract comprehension, maintaining, in fact, that reality has no other meaning.
The trouble lies, then, not in abstractness or concreteness, but with the accountant who does not know how to balance his books.
It is partly the concreteness of Howard's imaginary world that gives his stories their vividness and fascinationhis sharp, gorgeous, consistent vision of "a purple and golden and crimson universe where anything can happenexcept the tedious.
And there flashed before her with ridiculous concreteness the thought: 'I've got three hundred a year of my own!
Smoky himself mostly inherited the Barnable anonymity, and only a streak of his mother's concreteness: an actual streak it seemed to those who knew him, a streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence.