Associations to the word «Embodiment»

Wiktionary

EMBODIMENT, noun. A physical entity typifying an abstraction

Dictionary definition

EMBODIMENT, noun. A new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning".
EMBODIMENT, noun. A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life".
EMBODIMENT, noun. Giving concrete form to an abstract concept.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky