concreteness
Solid, touchable quality
Concreteness is the quality of being specific, definite, and grounded in observable reality rather than abstract or vague.
A proposal gains concreteness when it includes actual numbers and timelines.
Writers strive for concreteness by choosing vivid details over generalities: not "a bird" but "a red-winged blackbird." The concreteness of her examples made the lecture memorable.
Bodily, material quality
- materialityState of being consequential
- substancePhysical material with mass
- solidityFirmness of structure
- palpabilityCapacity to be touched
texture · weight · mass · density · hardness · firmness · tactility · corporeality
State of being authentic
- actualityState of existing fact
- substantivenessMeaningfulness, real weight
- existenceState of being real
- factualityAdherence to truth
reality · objectivity · groundedness · worldliness · earthiness · thingness · physicalism · reification
Quality of being unambiguous
- lucidityClearness of mind
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- definitenessQuality of being exact
- specificityExactness of detail
exactness · distinctness · intelligibility · comprehensibility · understandability · perspicuity · transparency · articulateness
Specific distinguishing feature
- detailSingle small element
- granularityLevel of detail
- exactitudePerfect correctness in detail
- definitenessQuality of being exact
precision · itemization · enumeration · individuality · distinctiveness · meticulousness · thoroughness · refinement
physicality
Bodily, material quality
- materialityState of being consequential
- substancePhysical material with mass
- solidityFirmness of structure
palpability · texture · weight · mass · density · hardness · firmness · tactility · corporeality · substantiality
realness
State of being authentic
- actualityState of existing fact
- substantivenessMeaningfulness, real weight
- existenceState of being real
factuality · reality · objectivity · groundedness · worldliness · earthiness · thingness · physicalism · reification · instantiation
explicitness
Quality of being unambiguous
- lucidityClearness of mind
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- definitenessQuality of being exact
specificity · exactness · distinctness · intelligibility · comprehensibility · understandability · perspicuity · transparency · articulateness · coherence
particularity
Specific distinguishing feature
- detailSingle small element
- granularityLevel of detail
- exactitudePerfect correctness in detail
definiteness · precision · itemization · enumeration · individuality · distinctiveness · meticulousness · thoroughness · refinement · nuance
- physical propertiessolid, texture, weight, mass, surface
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
- Precision Wordsexact, precision, accuracy, precise, accurate
- knowledge traitsaccuracy, depth, breadth, clarity, expertise
- semanticsmeaning, denotation, sense, connotation, reference
- Acmeism
concretenessabstractness
Quality of being nonphysical
abstraction · intangibility · immateriality · incorporeality · etherealness
concretenessvagueness
Absence of precision
abstractness · generality · indefiniteness · ambiguity · nebulousness
concretenessunreality
Quality of being imaginary
fantasy · illusoriness · insubstantiality · immateriality · falseness
concrete, concreted, concretely, concretion, concretes, concreting, concretize, concretions, concretized