rare. [f. CONCRETE a. + -ISM.] The practice of regarding or representing what is abstract as concrete.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., ii. 28. The concretism of thought which belongs to the deaf-mute. Ibid. (1871), Prim. Cult., I. 374. It is a surprising instance of this tendency to concretism, that among … the Buddhists, the most obviously moral beast-fables have become literal incidents of sacred history.
