The phrase "a concreteness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific quality of being concrete or tangible in a discussion or analysis.
Example: "The report lacked a concreteness that would help the audience understand the implications of the findings."
Alternatives: "a tangible quality" or "a specific clarity".
We tested whether a "concreteness fading" technique, which begins with concrete materials and fades to abstract symbols, can help children extend their knowledge beyond a simple instructed procedure.
There was a concreteness effect in terms of faster speed of response for concrete words compared to abstract words.
But it is a concreteness of sounds, word, letters and feelings.
Other writers agree that bookselling work has a concreteness that writing itself can lack.
Calling the current state of the economy by its proper name gives a concreteness to the felt mood, which was discernible even in the hectic flourish of post-Thanksgiving Christmas shopping -- a leading economic indicator for retailers and regular people alike.
"His view of social and political life," Isaiah Berlin wrote, has "an authenticity, a concreteness, and a sense of reality" unusual in philosophy; it is "generously receptive, deeply humane and formed by the truth as he sees it, and not as it ought to be in accordance with dogmatically held premises or overmastering ideology".
The second patient BG is a phonological dyslexic who, although displaying a strong concreteness effect (concrete words read better than abstract words), was able to read functors individually perfectly well, a pattern that is rarely if ever seen.
In Experiment 1, children with low prior knowledge received instruction in one of four conditions: (a) concrete, (b) abstract, (c) concreteness fading, or (d) concreteness introduction.
Donald Fanger asserts that "the real city... rendered with a striking concreteness, is also a city of the mind in the way that its atmosphere answers Raskolnikov's state and almost symbolizes it.
"Jelly-like" is a wonderful touch, giving this mythic scene a novel concreteness.
Writers have done it, or things like it, in innumerable short stories and television episodes, in skinny comic book issues and brick-fat tomes where superhero Jesus, cloned Jesus, time-traveling Jesus, robot Jesus, innumerable variants play with the power of religion but with a strange concreteness, beyond simple use imagery, that is rarely an issue outside genre fiction.
