Last Updated ：2025/11/23

concretization

Noun

uncountable countable

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

Japanese Meaning

抽象的な原則や概念を、具体例や詳細な説明を通じて明確かつ具体的な形に展開する過程 / 抽象的なアイデアを実際的な事例や具体的な形で表現する行為

What is this buttons?

The concretization of the company's sustainability goals required specific metrics, timelines, and actionable projects.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その企業の持続可能性目標を具体化するには、具体的な指標、期限、そして実行可能なプロジェクトが必要だった。

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Sense（1）

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

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.

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Sense（2）

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

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

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Sense（3）

(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.

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."

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