Embody vs Materialize - What's the difference?
embody | materialize |
To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
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To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
* Epes Sargent
To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
In transitive terms the difference between embody and materialize
is that embody is to include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole while materialize is to regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.embody
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Verb
(en-verb)- As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
- The soul, while it is embodied , can no more be divided from sin.
citation
- 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 * embodimentmaterialize
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Alternative forms
* materialise (UK )Verb
(materializ)- It is asserted that in a series of sittings extending through several months a female spirit form, temporarily materialized and not distinguishable from a human being, repeatedly came from a cabinet into the light