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physicality|fɪzɪˈkælɪtɪ|
[f. physical a. (and n.) + -ity.]
1. Physical condition; also † humorously as a title for a medical man.
1593Nashe Four Lett. Confut. Wks. (Grosart) II. 241 Receiue some notes as touching his phisicallity deceased. He had his Grace to be Doctor ere he died. 1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis i. ix. 131 When we followed that Medicinal way..we could never (by that kind of Physicallity)..perceive any thing well founded. 1944M. Weitz in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 73 Here Russell objects because..some entities, the unperceived entities of physics, even though they are neutral—i.e., have no first-order property of mentality or physicality—cannot be brought into psychological causal laws. 1948Mind LVII. 8 Ayer chooses to call the commonly accepted criteria of physicality (the various meanings attached to the word ‘physical world’) ‘assumptions’. 1953Mind LXII. 26 Ontological assumptions concerning the nature of physicality.
2. The quality that pertains to physical sensation or to the body as distinct from the mind.
1849J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 143 Take again all the delicacies respecting bodily physicalities which savages have not a vestige of. 1930E. Sitwell Coll. Poems 126 This bestial consciousness that is desire Is the hot muscles' vast fluidity, Muscular life, not physicality. 1964Listener 27 Aug. 317/1 The climax is Thornhill's visit to a bullfight. The terse physicality of Mr Scott's style, his ability to evoke place and register action, avoids much suggestion of the derivative. 1972C. L. Cooper in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 218 The trunk of her, he saw self⁓consciously, with a tiny tickle of physicality, was full to bursting with youth under the plain dress. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Nov. 42/4 Dancing, because of its immediate physicality, its shift in time and space, has a fluid plausibility which is apparently undemanding. |