concretion
noun
con·cre·tion
kän-ˈkrē-shən 
kən-
1
: something concreted: such as
a
: a hard usually inorganic mass (such as a bezoar or tophus) formed in a living body
b
: a mass of mineral matter found generally in rock of a composition different from its own and produced by deposition from aqueous solution in the rock
2
: the act or process of concreting : the state of being concreted
concretion of ideas in a hypothesis
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It is always stacked full of containers with concretions from different sites.
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Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
Love boasts no inherent magic by which these differences may be neatly expunged; each one must be resolved, or left open, in the total concretion of experience.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
The museum was interested and asked to keep it to work on it to take off the many layers on concretion on it.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
Parade sets out to go beyond the novel’s habitual concretion, to undo our attachment to the stability of selfhood and its social markers.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
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Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
Love boasts no inherent magic by which these differences may be neatly expunged; each one must be resolved, or left open, in the total concretion of experience.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
The museum was interested and asked to keep it to work on it to take off the many layers on concretion on it.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
Parade sets out to go beyond the novel’s habitual concretion, to undo our attachment to the stability of selfhood and its social markers.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
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“Concretion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concretion. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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concretion
noun
con·cre·tion
kän-ˈkrē-shən
kən-
1
: a hard usually inorganic mass formed in a living body
2
: a lump or egg-shaped mass of mineral matter found in rock of different composition
Medical Definition
concretion
noun
con·cre·tion
kän-ˈkrē-shən, kən-
: a hard usually inorganic mass (as a tophus) formed especially from mineral salts in a living body
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