enflesh

Give physical form

To enflesh is to give bodily form to something abstract or spiritual—to make it incarnate.

The word appears in theological and philosophical contexts: The doctrine holds that God enfleshed himself in human form.

More broadly, it means to embody or realize concretely: The architect enfleshed her vision in steel and glass.

embody

incarnate

Given bodily form

personify · substantiate · actualize · concretize · realize · externalize · instantiate · reify · make real · bring to life

corporeal

bodily

Of the physical form

corporeal · material · tangible · substantial · palpable · incarnate · mortal · earthly · human · creaturely

animate

vitalize

Make lively again

vivify · awaken · energize · revive · animate · inspire · kindle · spark · rouse · stimulate

Opposites
embodiment/materialization

enfleshdisembody

Remove from corporeal existence

dematerialize · discarnate · disembodiment · etherealize · spiritualize

abstraction/concretization

enfleshabstract

Condensed version of text

idealize · rarify · sublimate · volatilize · theorize

Family

flesh, fleshy, fleshiness, fleshless, fleshly, fleshpot

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