HealthAugust 10, 2026

concreteness

KON-kreet-nes

Definition

The quality of being specific, tangible, and grounded in observable facts rather than vague, global, or abstract concepts.

Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'concretus', meaning 'grown together' or 'hardened', reflecting the idea of taking abstract ideas and making them solid or tangible.

In the news

The article introduces 'concreteness training' as a method to combat rumination by focusing on specific, factual details of an event rather than abstract, self-critical questions. It matters here because shifting to this concrete mode provides traction for problem-solving.

The research on overthinking points to one specific shift that helps more than telling yourself to stop: drop from the abstract why is this happening to me to the concrete what exactly happened and what is my next step

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ScienceBlog.com

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