embodiment

English

Etymology

From embody + -ment.

Noun

Wikipedia embodiment (plural embodiments)

1. a physical entity typifying an abstraction

   You are the very embodiment of beauty.

   • 1880, W.S. Gilbert, Iolanthe

     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.

Synonyms

• incarnation

Derived terms

• disembodiment

Translations

entity typifying an abstraction

• Arabic: تجسد (ar) (tajássad) m
• Bulgarian: въплъщение (bg) (vǎplǎštenie) n, олицетворение (bg) (olicetvorenie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化身 (cmn) (huàshēn)

• Czech: ztělesnění (cs) n
• Danish: legemliggørelse (da) c
• Dutch: belichaming (nl) f
• Finnish: ruumiillistuma (fi)
• French: incarnation (fr) f
• German: Verkörperung (de) f, Inbegriff (de) m, Inkarnation (de) f

• Italian: incarnazione (it) f
• Japanese: 化身 (ja) (けしん, keshin)
• Korean: 화신 (ko) (hwasin)
• Macedonian: олицетворение (mk) (olicetvorénie) n, отелотворение (mk) (otelotvorénie) n
• Manx: cochorpaghey (gv) m
• Portuguese: personificação (pt) f
• Russian: воплощение (ru) (voploščénije) n, олицетворение (ru) (olicetvorénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: utjelovljenje (sh)
• Spanish: encarnación (es) f