embodiment
Etymology

From embody + -ment.

Noun

embodiment

  1. The process of embodying.
  2. (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
    You are the very embodiment of beauty.
    • 1880, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe:
      The law is the true embodiment / Of everything that's excellent. / It has no kind of fault or flaw, / And I, my Lords, embody the law.
  3. (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
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