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Embodied vs Nonembodied - What's the difference?

embodied | nonembodied |

As a verb embodied

is past tense of embody.

As an adjective nonembodied is

not embodied.

embodied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (embody)

    • embody

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
    • As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
  • * South
    • The soul, while it is embodied , can no more be divided from sin.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
  • To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
    • The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
    The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

    Derived terms

    * disembody * embodiment

    nonembodied

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not embodied
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 3, author=, title=3,000 Americans: Let Us Remember (6 Letters), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Thank you for publishing “The Roster of the Dead ” (Jan. 1) — pictures of the third thousand United States service members killed in Iraq — putting names and faces on what are otherwise nonembodied statistics. }}