Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Corporeally; as regards the body or soma.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a somatic manner
  • adverb With regard to somatics

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Examples

  • To fill the void, the organizers of Smol Leumi hope to provide a political alternative that is both liberal-minded and somatically nationalist.

    Adam Chandler: Is There an Israeli Left Left? Adam Chandler 2010

  • To fill the void, the organizers of Smol Leumi hope to provide a political alternative that is both liberal-minded and somatically nationalist.

    Adam Chandler: Is There an Israeli Left Left? Adam Chandler 2010

  • To fill the void, the organizers of Smol Leumi hope to provide a political alternative that is both liberal-minded and somatically nationalist.

    Adam Chandler: Is There an Israeli Left Left? Adam Chandler 2010

  • Whether that's true or not, for me, somatically speaking, intuition arises in the heart, and not the head.

    Flag That Head James Gurney 2010

  • For example, I tend to experience fear somatically.

    Dr. Susan Corso: Too Sensitive? Try Emotional Freedom 2009

  • Could you speak to working somatically in a cognitively oriented culture?

    Shambhala Times - Focusing: An Interview with David Rome William Harryman 2009

  • Surely evolution has "designed" our systems to be somatically biased towards certain thinking and actions that favor organismic preferences.

    Damasio on Bias 2006

  • This is true even of a brain function as somatically integrating as the maintenance of body temperature: the

    The Definition of Death DeGrazia, David 2007

  • Adoption of a different societal role thereby "allowing" certain gestures and mannerisms, and HRT to somatically change things like cartilage suppleness, and fat and muscle distribution, would allow the hypothetical indiidual to act more on instinct, and with less discomfort due to constantly having to censor natural impulses that are hard-wired.

    Brain Intersex Zoe Brain 2006

  • The only thing not predicted would be the phenomenon of "CrossDressing", which some 80% of somatically male and 20% of somatically female transsexuals indulge in, ostensibly as a coping mechanism to relieve distress.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Zoe Brain 2006

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