Concrete vs Pandemonism - What's the difference?
concrete | pandemonism |
Particular, perceivable, real.
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Not abstract.
* John Stuart Mill
* I. Watts
United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
* Bishop Burnet
Made of concrete building material.
A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.
A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles.
* 1661 , , p. 26:
(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
* 2010 , June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth (page 54)
* John Lutz, Diamond Eyes (page 170)
(logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
* John Stuart Mill
Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
To cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over .
To solidify.
To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
* Arbuthnot
Belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action is inhabited by its own independent supernatural spirit; worship of such spirits.
* 1833 , Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious and Ecclesiastical Terms , p. 291:
* 1910 , Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos, Herbert Lockwood Willett, The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary , p. 1481:
* 1974 , Stephen Porter Dunn, Introduction to Soviet Ethnography , p. 491:
* 1996 , Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire , page 121:
* 2004 , Boris Jakim, The Comforter , p. 226:
Belief in an universe that is infused with an evil spirit.
* 1927 , Lewis Browne, Elsa Weihl, That Man Heine: A Biography , p. 257:
* 1987 , Friedrich Schelling in Ernst Behler, Philosophy of German Idealism , p. 235:
* 2003 , Robert Wicks, Literary Truth as Dreamlike Expression in Foucault's and Borges's "Chinese Encyclopedia"'', in ''Philosophy and Literature , Vol. 27, No. 1, p. 80-97.
As nouns the difference between concrete and pandemonism
is that concrete is a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand while pandemonism is belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action is inhabited by its own independent supernatural spirit; worship of such spirits.As an adjective concrete
is particular, perceivable, real.As a verb concrete
is to cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over .concrete
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
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- Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete , even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
- The names of individuals are concrete , those of classes abstract.
- Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
- The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
- The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
Synonyms
* (perceivable) tangible * (not abstract) tangibleAntonyms
* (perceivable) intangible * (not abstract) intangible, abstractNoun
(wikipedia concrete) (-)- The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
- "...upon the suppos’d (term) made by the fire, of the former sort of Concretes , there are wont to emerge Bodies resembling those which they take for the Elements...
- Besides cones, Curley's serves sundaes, and concretes —custard with all sorts of yummy goodness blended in, like pecans, caramel, almonds,
- When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes .
- The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
Derived terms
* -crete * reinforced concrete * shotcreteSee also
* cement * mortar * UHPCVerb
(concret)- I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
- Josie’s plans began concreting once she fixed a date for the wedding.
- The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete .
Derived terms
* concrete jungle * concretion * concretize/concretise * concrete canyon ----pandemonism
English
Alternative forms
* * pandaemonismNoun
(-)- At all events, it is interesting to learn, from this work, with greater accuracy, an old religious system of the East, in which are to he found, with Pandemonism and the metempsychosis, the elements of the worship of the stars, of astrology, the theurgy , the doctrine of amulets, as well as the elements of the Hindoo religion, particularly the system of castes.
- Every object, animate or inanimate, every idea, abstract or concrete, became endowed with a spirit of its own. The religion of Rome was a pandaemonism , a belief, not in one god, pervading all nature and identified with nature, but in millions of gods, a god for every object, every act.
- But he was scarcely right in attempting to derive all primitive religious concepts from an undifferentiated "dim pandemonism ."
- The dignity and calm of Isiac faith had something to impress anxious or fickle pagans who were beguiled by the murky occultism of the sects or the pandemonism of the magicians.
- This peculiar anthropological docetism, or pandemonism , is not compatible with the Christian faith.
- It was but the original faith of the ancient ancient Teutons which the Christian monks had perverted into pandemonism .
- While this ancillary thought explains evil in the world, it also completely extinguishes the good and introduces pandemonism instead of pantheism.
- Whereas pantheism asserts that all is God, pandemonism' asserts that all is hell; whereas pantheism asserts that all is sacred and divine, ' pandemonism asserts that all is profane and contaminated.
