concretization
Noun
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Noun
concretization
- (uncountable) The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
- 1934, J. Tinbergen, "Annual Survey of Significant Developments in General Economic Theory," Econometrica, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 25:
- 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.
- 1934, J. Tinbergen, "Annual Survey of Significant Developments in General Economic Theory," Econometrica, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 25:
- (countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
- 1979, Trudy Scott, "Stuart Sherman's Singular Spectacles," The Drama Review: TDR, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 75:
- This movement gave Sherman his first image—a roller skate—a concretization of pure motion.
- 1993, Lubomír Doležel, "Semiotic Poetics of the Prague School," in Irene Rima Makaryk (ed.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms, ISBN 9780802068606, p. 182 (Google preview) ↗:
- 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).
- 1979, Trudy Scott, "Stuart Sherman's Singular Spectacles," The Drama Review: TDR, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 75:
- (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.
- 1969, E. Drage and B. Lange, "Ethical Considerations in the Use of Patients for Demonstration," The American Journal of Nursing, vol. 69, no. 10, p. 2165:
- 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."
- 1969, E. Drage and B. Lange, "Ethical Considerations in the Use of Patients for Demonstration," The American Journal of Nursing, vol. 69, no. 10, p. 2165:
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