embodiment

English

Etymology

embody +‎ -ment

Noun

embodiment (plural embodiments)

1. a physical entity typifying an abstract concept

   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.

   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     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.

Synonyms

• incarnation

Derived terms

• disembodiment

Translations

entity typifying an abstraction

• Arabic: تَجَسَّد m (tajassad)
• Bulgarian: въплъщение (bg) n (vǎplǎštenie), олицетворение (bg) n (olicetvorenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化身 (zh) (huàshēn)

• Czech: ztělesnění n
• Danish: legemliggørelse c
• Dutch: belichaming (nl) f
• Finnish: ruumiillistuma
• French: incarnation (fr) f
• German: Verkörperung f, Inbegriff (de) m, Inkarnation (de) f
• Greek: ενσάρκωση (el) f (ensárkosi)
• Hungarian: megtestesülés (hu), megtestesítő, (in adjectival role) megtestesült (hu), (in adjectival role) két lábon járó
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• Italian: incarnazione (it) f
• Japanese: 化身 (ja) (けしん, keshin)
• Korean: 화신 (hwasin)
• Macedonian: олицетворение n (olicetvorenie), отелотворение n (otelotvorenie)
• Manx: cochorpaghey m
• Maori: whakatinanatanga
• Portuguese: personificação (pt) f
• Russian: воплоще́ние (ru) n (voploščénije), олицетворе́ние (ru) n (olicetvorénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: utjelovljenje (sh)
• Spanish: encarnación f
• Swedish: förkroppsligande (sv) n