embodiment

Noun
  1. A new personification of a familiar idea (synset 110438047)
    "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning"
    is a type of: personification - a person who represents an abstract quality
    subtypes:
    • deification - an embodiment of the qualities of a god
    • reincarnation - embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)
    same as: avatar, incarnation
  2. A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept (synset 105949928)
    "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life"
    is a type of: concrete representation, concretism - a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms
    same as: shape
  3. Giving concrete form to an abstract concept (synset 100934815)
    is a type of: objectification - the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing
    subtypes:

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