Definition of Concretisms

1. concretism [n] - See also: concretism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Concretisms

concreters
concretes
concreting
concretio cordis
concretion
concretional
concretionary
concretions
concretisation
concretisations
concretise
concretised
concretises
concretising
concretism
concretisms (current term)
concretist
concretistic
concretists
concretive
concretively
concretization
concretizations
concretize
concretized
concretizes
concretizing
concretum
concreture
concrew

Literary usage of Concretisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization by Edward Burnett Tylor (1870)
"Such expressions are concretisms, picture-words, gesture-words, as much as the deaf-and-dumb man's one sign for "butter" and " buttering. ..."

2. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1865)
"... these expressions are " concretisms," "picture words, or " gesture words," as much as the deaf and dumb man's one word for butter and buttering. ..."

3. Mental Evolution in Man, Origin of Human Faculty by George John Romanes (1889)
"Such expressions are concretisms, picture-words, gesture-words, as much as the deaf-and-dumb man's one sign for'butter' and 'buttering. ..."

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