physicality

English

Etymology

From physical +‎ -ity.

Noun

physicality (countable and uncountable, plural physicalities)

1. Physical attributes.
   • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:

     Their bodies started to melt, and lost what physicality they had. Pretty soon, all of the test subjects had melted together into … Those.

   • 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald‎:

     At the heart of that was McTominay, using his physicality to break down Spanish momentum, and his reading of the game to stymie their attacks.

2. Obsession with physical urges.

Synonyms

• physicalness

Derived terms

• nonphysicality

Translations

physical attributes

Catalan: fisicitat f Finnish: fysikaalisuus Spanish: fisicalidad f (rare), fisicidad f