单词 | physicality |
释义 | physicalityn.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] leechcraftc888 physicc1325 medicinec1330 physicality1592 physics1626 medics1663 physianthropy1828 thereology1841 leechery1892 med1931 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. G4 Receiue some notes as touching his phisicallity deceased. He had his grace to be Doctor ere he died. 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 131 When we followed that Medicinal way..we could never (by that kind of Physicallity)..perceive any thing well founded. 2. The fact, state, or condition of being physical (as opposed to mental, spiritual, etc.).In quot. 1827: physical features or characteristics. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] bodiness1398 corporality1398 corporalness1398 corpulentness1398 materiality1570 bodiliness1587 materialness1587 corpulency1594 corpulencea1625 corporature1647 crassities1659 corporeity1664 bodiship1674 physicalness1727 physicality1827 grossness1862 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom III. 100 A few [rodents] have subterraneous habits and physicalities. 1893 W. R. Houghton Neeley's Hist. of Parl. of Relig. & Relig. Congr. 63 I find the same two sister streams of spirit and matter, of the intellect and physicality, joining hand and hand, representing the symbolical evolution of the universe. 1944 M. 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. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Feb. 41/1 Anderson reflects on her preoccupation with spatial dimensions, reality and physicality, and ‘the emotional, spiritual and esoteric’. 3. The awareness of the body or of bodily sensation; a bodily function or experience. Also: the quality of being physically demanding; physical intensity; strong physical presence or appeal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > physical sensation > quality of physicality1844 1844 Southern Literary Messenger 10 576/1 It is a curious circumstance that in his ‘Whims and Oddities’ of by gone years, the majority of them by far turned upon some painful physicality. 1849 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 143 Take again all the delicacies respecting bodily physicalities which savages have not a vestige of. 1930 E. Sitwell Coll. Poems 126 This bestial consciousness that is desire Is the hot muscles' vast fluidity, Muscular life, not physicality. 1972 C. 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. 1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 27 Dec. 29/4 Nolte tends to think his career comes from his ‘physicality’ and that certainly accounts for his watchability, popularity and star-power. 1994 Canal & Riverboat Feb. 25/1 Meanwhile I was operating all the locks and loving the sheer physicality of the work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592 |
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