humorality
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]humorality (uncountable)
- (historical) A specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.
- 2010, Gail Kern Paster, Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage, page 220:
- In a pneumatic context, the claim to humorality is thus also, implicitly, a claim upon deference and a demand for social accommodation.
- 2019, Amy Kenny, Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage, page 4:
- 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.
- 2021, Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson, “Introduction—Everyday Humoralism”, in Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson, editor, Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance, page 2:
- 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?.