In the portrait, pride appears embodied in a steady gaze.
Her choreography turned anger into an embodied rhythm.
The agreement embodied the compromise reached that morning.
The new building gave the charity's values an embodied presence.
The memorial made grief feel embodied in stone.
Similar words
expressed
incorporated
manifested
bodily
personified
embedded
incarnated
sensorimotor
expressed
situated
Meanings
Made concrete or visible
adjective
everyday
neutral
Given a definite form, often because a quality, idea, or feeling is shown through a person, object, action, or work of art.
Examples
The memorial made grief feel embodied in stone.
To the fans, the captain was discipline embodied.
Her choreography turned anger into an embodied rhythm.
The new building gave the charity's values an embodied presence.
In the portrait, pride appears embodied in a steady gaze.
Similar words
incarnate
personified
manifest
concrete
visible
expressed
Grounded in bodily experience
adjective
cognitive science
technical
Shaped by a living body, its senses, movement, and interaction with the surrounding world rather than treated as purely mental or abstract.
Examples
Embodied cognition links thinking with perception and action.
The lab studies embodied AI in mobile robots.
Dance offered an embodied way to understand rhythm.
The therapist focused on embodied awareness during breathing exercises.
Her research treats memory as situated and embodied.
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situated
bodily
corporeal
sensorimotor
enactive
Represented or expressed fully
verb
everyday
neutral
Showed a quality, idea, or character so clearly that it seemed to take form in a person, action, object, or situation.
Examples
The judge embodied calm authority throughout the trial.
The festival embodied the neighborhood's generous spirit.
Her final speech embodied the campaign's promise of renewal.
The novel embodied a generation's restlessness.
His plain desk embodied his dislike of showy luxury.
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represented
personified
exemplified
expressed
manifested
incarnated
Included as part of something
verb
formal
formal
Built a rule, idea, feature, or provision into a larger document, system, design, or organization.
Examples
The agreement embodied the compromise reached that morning.
The new constitution embodied several earlier legal traditions.
Their prototype embodied the safety features missing from the first design.
The policy embodied a stricter approach to data retention.
Those assumptions were embodied in the model before testing began.
Similar words
incorporated
included
contained
integrated
embedded
enshrined
Etymology
From embody, recorded in the 1540s for giving a soul or spirit bodily form, from em- meaning “in” plus body. The use for expressing ideas or principles is recorded from the 1660s.
FAQ
What does embodied mean?
Embodied means made concrete, shown through a person or thing, grounded in bodily experience, or included as part of something larger.
Is embodied an adjective or a verb?
Embodied can be an adjective, as in embodied experience, and it can be the past tense or past participle of embody.
What does embodied cognition mean?
Embodied cognition is the view that thinking is shaped by the body, perception, action, and interaction with the world.
Is embodied the same as embodied in a physical body?
Sometimes. In ordinary use it can mean given concrete form, while in technical use it often means grounded in bodily experience and action.
Can a person be embodied?
A person can be courage or kindness embodied, meaning the quality is shown so clearly in that person that it seems to take visible form.
What is a common mistake with embodied?
Embodied about is not standard. The usual pattern is embodied something or was embodied in something.
Where does embodied come from?
Embodied comes from embody, built from em- meaning “in” and body, with early uses about giving bodily form.
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