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CONCRETENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being concrete (not abstract)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("concreteness" is a kind of...):
corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)
Attribute:
concrete (capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concreteness"):
literalness (adhereing to the concrete construal of something)
Antonym:
abstractness (the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object)
Derivation:
concrete (capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary)