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embodied
[em-bod-eed]
adjective
expressed, personified, or exemplified in concrete form.
The one-day intensive workshop is designed to shift peacemaking from words and theory to costly, embodied reality.
having or provided with a body; incarnate or corporeal.
In most folklore, ghosts seem to be bound by many of the same physical laws that bind embodied beings.
Environmental Science.relating to or being the energy involved or required in the production, maintenance, or use of a particular concrete object, and therefore thought of as part of the object.
You can increase the embodied efficiency of a new house by building it in an already dense neighborhood, taking advantage of existing infrastructure and shorter distances.
(of writing) portraying the details of bodily experience as they are lived or relived by the writer so as to evoke them sympathetically in the reader.
Acting out your characters is something I recommend as part of the enlivening practice of embodied writing.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of embody.
Other Word Forms
- well-embodied adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of embodied1
Example Sentences
I don’t know why, but Billy Joel’s “Vienna” came to mind, perhaps because it’s always embodied a desire to find adventure in this city and soak the marrow out of life.
Clarkson, in a league of her own, turned the gold of Greenberg’s prose into embodied thought and feeling.
The Emergency was also a stark warning against the perils of hero worship - something embodied in the towering political persona of Indira Gandhi.
“The L.G.B.T.Q. community has long embodied this resilience, maintaining joy and creativity in the face of adversity.”
He teed up sets from the punky rapper K.Flay and Cypress Hill’s stoner savant B-Real, who embodied the two strains of L.A.’s response now — righteous fury and indefatigable confidence.
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