Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of embodying or the state of being embodied.
- n. One that embodies: "The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history” ( Woodrow Wilson).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Investment with or manifestation through an animate body; incarnation; bodily presentation: as, metempsychosis is the supposed embodiment of previously existing souls in new forms; she is an embodiment of all the virtues.
- n. A bringing into or presentation in or through a form; formal expression or manifestation; formulation: as, the embodiment of principles in a treatise.
- n. Collection or formation into an aggregate body; organization; an aggregate whole; incorporation; concentration: as, the embodiment of troops into battalions, brigades, divisions, etc.; the embodiment of a country's laws.
Wiktionary
- n. a physical entity typifying an abstraction
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
- n. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body
WordNet 3.0
- n. a new personification of a familiar idea
- n. a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- n. giving concrete form to an abstract concept
Etymologies
- From embody + -ment. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Actually, your "lobsters", and those I'm familiar with are a unique product of nature wherein a parasitic mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum) "engulfs" a host mushroom (thought to usually be a Russula or Lactauius), and in its final embodiment, is known as Hypomyces lactifluorum.”
“The naturalness of this co-embodiment is perhaps the play's most violent re-writing of contemporary colonial conflict.”
Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb
“It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.”
“Because of the viewpoint that will soon be adopted with respect to this character, A will come to refer less to a thing than to an embodiment, that is to a hole of a different type, one that is continuously filled with combinations of sense data and emptied out again by forgetting”
Fictionaut: Every Thing is a Hole in a Thing That It Is Not (A Theoretical Fiction)
“In Yoga and its companion science, Ayurvedic medicine, the first learning of your embodiment is the means to identify your specific body type because every body is different.”
“Only the other day I heard a paper read in which he was described as the embodiment of a healthy mentality.”
“F property is defined as the embodiment, or storage of information encoded in a symbolic language encoded in a symbolic language.”
“The embodiment was a special web browser that displayed and projected multiple pages in cube form, where each internal facet displayed a web page.”
“This sense of corporeal dis-possession is perhaps no more strongly evident than in Schelling's decision to characterize individual embodiment, which is to say the point of maximal particularization at the farthest distance from the universal affairs of spirit, in terms of an originary craving or addiction [die Sucht].”
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
“Furthermore, the Church is described as the Body, that is, the embodiment, of Christ: the instrument or organ whereby the Spirit of”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘embodiment’.
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JURI - patent law
admissible, entry, allowable, fact, lapse, term, title, notes, abstract, absolute grounds ..., acquisition of th..., action for revoca... and 338 more...
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humpty's list
detrimental, hedonism, exonerate, extemporaneous, labyrinth, diffidence, brazen, celerity, alacrity, bigotry, phantasmagorical, sardonic and 14 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL E
ebb, ebullition, eccentric, ecclesiastical, echelon, éclat, eclectic, eclogue, ecstasy, ecumenical, edification, edify and 143 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT PT #5 (new bk)
inane, scrutinze, attended, testify to, jeopardize, sustain, plentiful, ornate, multifarious, catalogue, anachronistic, extrapolate and 89 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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Thesis words
Words that will come in handy for my senior thesis, which I am working on "as we speak."
quiddity, irrupt, metaphor, embodiment, attunement, orientation, comportment, performativity, style, lifestyle, hexis, habitus and 24 more...
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McNamarian Vocab
William McNamara, O.C.D. presents the spirituality of "the word made flesh"
embody, enflesh, howl, amplitude, cocreators, fragmented, estranged, resounds, parousia, resonates, enfleshment, entrusted and 26 more...
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"King Dork" and his Mispronunciation ...
bête noire, wanton, weltschmerz, abortive, dipsomania, concupiscent, obsequious, malevolence, charade, ostracizing, periphery, parasitic and 20 more...
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simple & useful3
mystique, lurid, starry-eyed, fluttery, slumberous, listlessness, mumbler, experiential, travesty, reciprocity, immersion, bombarding and 60 more...
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