humorality
nounEtymology
From humoral + -ity.
Definitions
A specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance…
A specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.
- In a pneumatic context, the claim to humorality is thus also, implicitly, a claim upon deference and a demand for social accommodation.
- By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior.
- For instance, how might Galenic humorality be perceived beyond the immediate example of the human body whose fabric we have grown accustomed to seeing as Galenically inflected?.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for humorality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA