embodiment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept

   A circle was the embodiment of their concept of life.

2. 2
   noun

   a new personification of a familiar idea

   the embodiment of hope

3. 3
   noun

   A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.

   You are the very embodiment of beauty.

4. 4
   noun

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

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   giving concrete form to an abstract concept

6. 6
   noun

   The process of embodying.

Etymology

From embody + -ment.