embodiment

n.

1. The act of embodying or the state of being embodied.
2. One that embodies: “The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history” (Woodrow Wilson).

noun

A physical entity typifying an abstraction: exteriorization, externalization, incarnation, manifestation, materialization, objectification, personalization, personification, substantiation, type. Rhetoric prosopopeia. See substitute.

n

Definition: representation, manifestation
Antonyms: exclusion

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The process whereby the individual body is connected into larger networks of meaning at a variety of scales; the production of social and cultural relationships through and by the body simultaneously with the ‘make-ing up’ of the body by external forces (Cresswell, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 24).

A key concept for some schools of phenomenology, and in particular for Merleau-Ponty. The subjective experience of one's own body is different from the objective or scientific picture of a body in physiological terms. The specific ways we experience ourselves as embodied thus become prime data for theorizing about knowledge and experience.

[Th]

A humanistic perspective that seeks to widen interpretation to include all dimensions of social existence and experience by rooting any understanding of it in the way that experience is developed through the senses of the body and cognition of the self in intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and affective terms.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - inkarnation, personifikation, inkorporering, samling

Nederlands (Dutch)
belichaming, het belichamen, omvatting

Français (French)
n. - incarnation, personnification, incorporation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Verkörperung, Einfügung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - προσωποποίηση, ενσάρκωση

Italiano (Italian)
incarnazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - personificação (f), materialização (f)

Русский (Russian)
воплощение, олицетворение

Español (Spanish)
n. - encarnación, personificación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förkroppsligande, inkarnation, konkret form

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
体现, 化身, 具体化

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 體現, 化身, 具體化

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 구체화

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 化身, 具体的表現, 具体化

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تجسيد, تجسد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮התגלמות‬

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