embodiment

CEFRC1

/ɛˈmbɑdimənt/

noun

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
The process of embodying.

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You are the very embodiment of beauty.
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.
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.

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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.
1880, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe
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.
2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone
In many respects, the genre [science fiction] was exceptionally well suited to extrapolate from contemporary social concerns and promote visions of alternative societies, new forms of embodiment, and novel pathways for desire and pleasure.
2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 17

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From embody + -ment.