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embodiment

noun

Etymology

From embody + -ment.

  1. derived from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake, observe”
  2. inherited from *bodag✻ — “body, trunk”
  3. inherited from bodiġ
  4. inherited from body
  5. prefixed as embody — “em + body”
  6. suffixed as embodiment — “embody + ment”

Definitions

  1. The process of embodying.

  2. A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.

    • You are the very embodiment of beauty.
    • 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.
    • 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.

  3. The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced…

    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.

The neighborhood

Derived

disembodiment, reembodiment

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at embodiment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at embodiment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at embodiment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA