Concretization

Quick meaning: Concretization is a noun meaning (uncountable) The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
2. (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

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

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

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.

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).

Word Forms

• concretizations
• concretisation

Antonyms for concretization

Common opposites include abstraction.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include concreteness, materialization, embodiment, realisation, actualization, specificity.

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