physical
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Late Latin physicālis, from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from φύσις (phúsis, “origin, birth; nature, quality; form, shape; type, kind”), from φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
- derived from *bʰuH-✻
- derived from φυσική
- derived from physica
- borrowed from physicālis
Definitions
Of medicine.
Of matter and nature.
- Labour, then, in the physical world, is […] employed in putting objects in motion.
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
- It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.
Of the human body.
- Insults can hurt a lot more than physical injuries.
- Are you feeling any physical effects?
- A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
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Of a piece of media, existing as a tangible object instead of being digital.
- There is just something so amazing about reading a physical book as compared to an e-book.
A physical examination.
- How long has it been since your last physical?
A physical manifestation of psychic origin, as through ectoplasmic solidification.
- "I don't mind readings and clairvoyance, but the physicals do try you."
The neighborhood
- antonymmental
- antonympsychical
- antonympsychological
- antonymspiritual
- antonymhaving to do with the mind
- antonymspirit viewed as distinct from body
- neighbormetaphysical
- neighborphysicality
- neighborphysically
- neighborphysician
- neighborphysics
- neighborcheckup
Derived
aerophysical, agrophysical, antiphysical, astrophysical, barophysical, biophysical, cataphysical, chemicophysical, chemophysical, cyberphysical, ecophysical, electrophysical, ethicophysical, extraphysical, geophysical, get physical, hydrophysical, hyperphysical, iatrophysical, macrophysical, mechanophysical, microphysical, neurophysical, nonphysical, pamphysical, paraphysical, petrophysical, photophysical, phygital, physical anthropology, physical body, physical break, physical change, physical chemistry, physical comedy, physical constant, physical culture, physical diagnosis, physical distancing, physical education · +47 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at physical. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at physical. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at physical
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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