noun
Meaning 1
The process of embodying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
embodiment
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- You are the very embodiment of beauty.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
giving concrete form to an abstract concept
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: objectification
Narrower terms: soul, personification, incarnation
noun
Meaning 5
a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shape
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: concretism, concrete representation
noun
Meaning 6
a new personification of a familiar idea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the embodiment of hope
- the incarnation of evil
- the very avatar of cunning
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: incarnation, avatar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: personification
Narrower terms: deification, reincarnation
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَجَسَّد (tajassad) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Azerbaijani: təcəssüm — entity typifying an abstraction
- Belarusian: увасабле́нне (uvasabljénnje) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Bulgarian: въплъще́ние (vǎplǎšténie) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Bulgarian: олицетворе́ние (olicetvorénie) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Chinese Mandarin: 化身 (huàshēn) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Czech: ztělesnění — entity typifying an abstraction
- Danish: legemliggørelse — entity typifying an abstraction
- Dutch: belichaming — entity typifying an abstraction
- Esperanto: enkorpiĝo — entity typifying an abstraction
- Finnish: ruumiillistuma — entity typifying an abstraction
- French: incarnation — entity typifying an abstraction
- German: Verkörperung — entity typifying an abstraction
- German: Inbegriff — entity typifying an abstraction
- German: Inkarnation — entity typifying an abstraction
- Greek: ενσάρκωση (ensárkosi) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Hungarian: megtestesülés — entity typifying an abstraction
- Hungarian: megtestesítő — entity typifying an abstraction
- Hungarian: megtestesült — entity typifying an abstraction
- Hungarian: két lábon járó — entity typifying an abstraction
- Italian: incarnazione — entity typifying an abstraction
- Japanese: 化身 (keshin) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Korean: 화신 (hwasin) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Macedonian: олицетворение (olicetvorenie) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Macedonian: отелотворение (otelotvorenie) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Manx: cochorpaghey — entity typifying an abstraction
- Māori: whakatinanatanga — entity typifying an abstraction
- Polish: wcielenie — entity typifying an abstraction
- Polish: uosobienie — entity typifying an abstraction
- Polish: ucieleśnienie — entity typifying an abstraction
- Portuguese: personificação — entity typifying an abstraction
- Russian: воплоще́ние (voploščénije) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Russian: олицетворе́ние (olicetvorénije) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Serbo-Croatian: утеловље́ње — entity typifying an abstraction
- Serbo-Croatian: утјеловље́ње — entity typifying an abstraction
- Serbo-Croatian: оваплоће́ње — entity typifying an abstraction
- Serbo-Croatian: utelovljénje — entity typifying an abstraction
- Serbo-Croatian: utjelovljénje — entity typifying an abstraction
- Serbo-Croatian: ovaploćénje — entity typifying an abstraction
- Slovak: stelesnenie — entity typifying an abstraction
- Slovene: utelešenje — entity typifying an abstraction
- Spanish: encarnación — entity typifying an abstraction
- Spanish: personificación — entity typifying an abstraction
- Spanish: efigie — entity typifying an abstraction
- Spanish: corporeización — entity typifying an abstraction
- Swedish: förkroppsligande — entity typifying an abstraction
- Ukrainian: вті́лення (vtílennja) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Ukrainian: уосо́блення (uosóblennja) — entity typifying an abstraction
- Vietnamese: hiện thân — entity typifying an abstraction
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