human flesh
What cannibals eat
Human flesh is the soft tissue of a human body—skin, muscle, fat.
The phrase emphasizes physicality and vulnerability: The blade cut into human flesh.
It appears in discussions of cannibalism, where eating human flesh is the ultimate taboo.
In the flesh means physically present rather than depicted or imagined: I finally met her in the flesh.
- skinBody's outer layer
- goose bumpsPrickling skin from chill
- meatAnimal tissue for food
- raw meatAnimal tissue, unheated
- bodyPhysical structure, living thing
cannibal · carnage · body horror · tissue · muscle · blood · bone · mortal · mortal coil · corporeal · carnal · wound · open wound · scar · touch · warmth · pulse · raw
- forbidden foodspork, bacon, ham, shellfish, shrimp cocktail
human fleshmetal
Hard conductive solid
stone · plastic · wood · mineral · synthetic material
human fleshhuman soul
Immaterial essence of personhood
human spirit · soul · spirit · immortal soul · mind
human, flesh, humans, humane, humanly, humanity, humanist, humanize, humanized