Dictionary

embodiment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English embody Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English embodiment From embody + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of embodying.
2. (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
   • And with his trademark smoking jackets and pipes – and the silk pajamas he would often wear to work – Hefner became the embodiment of a sexually adventurous yet urbane image and lifestyle, a seeming role model for generations of men. 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:
   • 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. 1880, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe:
   • You are the very embodiment of beauty.
3. (countable, uncountable) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
   • In many respects, the genre [science fiction] was exceptionally well suited to extrapolate from contemporary social concerns and promote visions of alternative societies, new forms of embodiment, and novel pathways for desire and pleasure. 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 17:

Forms

Deriveds

reembodiment · disembodiment

Synonyms

incarnation

Translations (49)

fr incarnation (entity typifying an abstraction) · vi hiện thân (entity typifying an abstraction) · sl utelešenje (entity typifying an abstraction) · sv förkroppsligande (entity typifying an abstraction) · mi whakatinanatanga (entity typifying an abstraction) · bg въплъще́ние (entity typifying an abstraction) · sh utjelovljénje (entity typifying an abstraction) · es efigie (entity typifying an abstraction) · hu megtestesült (entity typifying an abstraction) · ko 화신 (entity typifying an abstraction) · pl uosobienie (entity typifying an abstraction) · gv cochorpaghey (entity typifying an abstraction) · pt personificação (entity typifying an abstraction) · nl belichaming (entity typifying an abstraction) · sh оваплоће́ње (entity typifying an abstraction) · be увасабле́нне (entity typifying an abstraction) · sh ovaploćénje (entity typifying an abstraction) · az təcəssüm (entity typifying an abstraction) · ru воплоще́ние (entity typifying an abstraction) · hu megtestesítő (entity typifying an abstraction) · sk stelesnenie (entity typifying an abstraction) · eo enkorpiĝo (entity typifying an abstraction) · bg олицетворе́ние (entity typifying an abstraction) · ar تَجَسَّد (entity typifying an abstraction) · ja 化身 (entity typifying an abstraction) · uk уосо́блення (entity typifying an abstraction) · sh утјеловље́ње (entity typifying an abstraction) · it incarnazione (entity typifying an abstraction) · da legemliggørelse (entity typifying an abstraction) · uk вті́лення (entity typifying an abstraction) · es corporeización (entity typifying an abstraction) · hu két lábon járó (entity typifying an abstraction) · pl ucieleśnienie (entity typifying an abstraction) · pl wcielenie (entity typifying an abstraction) · fi ruumiillistuma (entity typifying an abstraction) · mk отелотворение (entity typifying an abstraction) · el ενσάρκωση (entity typifying an abstraction) · de Verkörperung (entity typifying an abstraction) · mk олицетворение (entity typifying an abstraction) · es personificación (entity typifying an abstraction) · sh utelovljénje (entity typifying an abstraction) · cmn 化身 (entity typifying an abstraction) · sh утеловље́ње (entity typifying an abstraction) · de Inbegriff (entity typifying an abstraction) · de Inkarnation (entity typifying an abstraction) · ru олицетворе́ние (entity typifying an abstraction) · cs ztělesnění (entity typifying an abstraction) · es encarnación (entity typifying an abstraction) · hu megtestesülés (entity typifying an abstraction)