incarnation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=car=na=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

incarnation, n. [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.].

•  The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.  [1913 Webster]
•  The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.  [1913 Webster]
•  An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.  [1913 Webster]

  "She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead."  [1913 Webster]

  "The very incarnation of selfishness."  [1913 Webster]
•  A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incarnation, n.
1 a embodiment in (esp. human) flesh. b (the Incarnation) Theol. the embodiment of God the Son in human flesh as Jesus Christ.
2 (often foll. by of) a living type (of a quality etc.).
3 Med. the process of forming new flesh.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. eccl.L incarnatio -onis (as INCARNATE)

THESAURUS

incarnation

Christophany, Satanophany, acting, angelophany, aping, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, characterization, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, concretization, corporealization, disclosure, dissemination, dumb show, embodiment, emergence, enacting, enactment, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, imitation, impersonation, incorporation, indication, issuance, manifestation, masquerade, materialization, materializing, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, occurrence, opening, pantomime, pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, personification, playing, pneumatophany, portrayal, posing, presentation, proof, publication, realization, reembodiment, reification, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising, showing, showing forth, substantiation, theophany, transmigration, unfolding, unfoldment, wild

ROGET THESAURUS

incarnation

Intrinsicality

N intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics, derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed, intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly, character is higher than intellect, come give us a taste of your quality, magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, vital spark of heavenly flame.