Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The process of embodying.

  2. (countable)A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.

    You are the very embodiment of beauty.

    Verkörperung, Inbegriff, Inkarnation

    воплоще́ниеvoploščénije, олицетворе́ниеolicetvorénije

    вті́ленняvtílennja, уосо́бленняuosóblennja

    giving concrete form to an abstract concept

  3. (countable, uncountable)The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Boldi is the embodiment of abnormality.

  2. Tom is the embodiment of evil.

  3. This woman is the embodiment of perfection.

    deDiese Frau ist die Verkörperung der Perfektion. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. He's the perfect embodiment of the sad bachelor.

  5. You've become the embodiment of everything I despise.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
entity typifying an abstraction:
Русский
By meaning 1
entity typifying an abstraction:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
entity typifying an abstraction:

Forms

plural: embodiments
Singularembodiment
Pluralembodiments

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a new personification of a familiar idea:incarnationavatar
  • a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept:shape

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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