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Physical vs Nisus - What's the difference?

physical | nisus |

As nouns the difference between physical and nisus

is that physical is physical examination while nisus is a mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.

As an adjective physical

is having to do with the body.

physical

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having to do with the body.
  • Having to do with the material world.
  • * John Stuart Mill
  • Labour, in the physical world, is employed in putting objects in motion.
  • * Macaulay
  • A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
  • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
  • Involving bodily force.
  • Having to do with physics.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Michael Riordan, title=Tackling Infinity
  • , volume=100, issue=1, page=86, magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • (label)
  • (obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
  • * Sir T. North
  • Physical herbs.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?

    Antonyms

    * mental, psychological; having to do with the mind viewed as distinct from body.

    Derived terms

    * antiphysical * physical body * physical chemistry * physical education * physical examination * physical relations * physical therapy * physical world

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Physical examination.
  • How long has it been since your last physical ?

    Synonyms

    * checkup, check-up

    Statistics

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    nisus

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
  • * 1833 , James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseasesof the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs'', quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor), ''The Medico-Chirurgical Review , New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series), page 7,
  • The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately the nisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, tranverse and descending portions of the colon.
  • * 1992 , J.G. Hart, The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics , page 363,
  • The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos'' of the nisus''' of moral categoriality, is the ''sensus plenior'' of the ' nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.
  • * 2006 , Errol E. Harris, Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness , page 158,
  • The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.

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