physicalness
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈfɪzɪkəlnəs/
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fisicalidad
- The physicalness of the sculpture made it feel lifelike and engaging.
It's you wanted to use the least amount of physical physicalness as possible.
- It's you wanted to use the least amount of physical physicalness as possible.
Examples
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In the world of dance, the physicalness of movement is essential to express emotion.
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It's you wanted to use the least amount of physical physicalness as possible.
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For several seconds, I struggled toward some coherency of event or sensation, but lost again to the sudden return of the state, an invisible physicalness that transported me toward an uncontrollable fear.
Fiction book (1996) -
He went so far as to laud the physicalness of the arts, emphasizing their capacity to integrate the human being by engaging the whole self as both a percipient and a recreator.
Academic text (1994) -
Thus we conceive emotions as the most elusive and nebulous of all mental states—purely immaterial feelings somehow separate from the physicalness of the brain.
Academic text (1997) -
He appreciated the physicalness of nature, enjoying the feel of the grass under his feet.
Synonyms
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5.9
A clear feeling of the body and its movement
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7.9
Physical existence of something you can touch or see
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9.6
The state of being physical and having a body
A person, animal or thing that has a real body
Having a physical body instead of being only spiritual
The quality of having a physical body rather than being only a mind
The state of being able to be touched or felt
How Physical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Physicalness comes from an old Greek root phys- meaning 'nature' or 'growth', and you can see the same root in physics, the study of matter and the natural world. So physicalness is the quality of being of the body or of real, material things.