embodiment

Plural: embodiments

Noun

• a new personification of a familiar idea
  • "the embodiment of hope"
• a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
  • "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life"
• giving concrete form to an abstract concept
• The process of embodying.
• A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
• The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.

Examples

• You are the very embodiment of beauty.

Synonyms

avatar, incarnation, shape