embodiment
Etymology Noun
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Etymology Noun
embodiment
- The process of embodying.
- (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.
- (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- French: incarnation
- German: Verkörperung, Inbegriff, Inkarnation
- Italian: incarnazione
- Portuguese: personificação
- Russian: воплоще́ние
- Spanish: encarnación, personificación
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