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/kənˈkriːtnəs/ · con·cre·ten·ess
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- The quality or state of being concrete; being specific, definite, or tangible. The concreteness of his instructions left no room for misunderstanding.
- In linguistics and psychology, the degree to which a word or concept denotes a perceptible, material object rather than an abstract idea. Researchers measured the concreteness of nouns to predict how easily they would be remembered.
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Did you know? The "concreteness effect"—the finding that concrete words are remembered better than abstract ones—has been a cornerstone of memory research since the 1970s.