Meaning

(uncountable) The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
2. (countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
3. (uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.

Example Sentences

There are certain fields in general economics that are at present not so much in need of a broadening of the theoretical basis as in need of a minute working-out and concretization.

[Law] proceeds from the general (abstract) to the individual (particular); it is a process of increasing individualization and concretization.

Vodicka's reception history is an empirical study of the post-genesis fortunes of literary works as attested in recorded concretizations (diaries, memoirs, letters, critical reviews, and essays).

This movement gave Sherman his first image—a roller skate—a concretization of pure motion.

Another [patient] commented on the fact that the consultant had referred to two of them as "boys" in the demonstration. The concretization of a schizophrenic is exemplified here. One man thought this word meant that the consultant, in order "to keep things on the level of boy-girl, wanted everyone else to consider her as a girl, so the boys and girls could communicate."

Word Forms

• concretizations
• concretisation

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