physical world
Tangible universe around
The physical world is the realm of matter, energy, and natural phenomena—everything that exists in space and occupies time, as opposed to the abstract, spiritual, or imaginary.
It encompasses what we can perceive through our senses or detect with instruments: objects, forces, living organisms, and the environments they inhabit.
The phrase often appears in contrast to concepts like the digital world, the spiritual realm, or the world of ideas.
Scientists study the physical world through observation and experiment.
She preferred the physical world to the virtual one, choosing hikes over video games.
- atomsSmallest elemental units
- dimensionsMeasurable spatial extents
- gasesFormless, expansible substances
- distanceSpace between two points
- fireCombustion with flames
kinetic energy · gravity · gravitational force · ice · thermal energy · corporeal · flesh and blood · observation · hard evidence · sensory · cosmos · matter · tangible · volume · natural phenomena · force of nature · nuclear energy · space-time
- realityreality, actuality, existence, being, truth
- realitiestruths, facts, existence, actuality, being
- Physicalismphysicalism, materialism, naturalism, monism, reductionism
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- Carvakamaterialism, atheism, anti-ritualism
- Timaeusdemiurge, Plato, receptacle, four elements, Platonic solids
physical worldspiritual realm
Non-physical plane of existence
spirit world · spiritual world · astral plane · otherworld · the beyond
physical worldworld of ideas
inner world · cognitive domain · dreamworld · virtual world · fictional world
physical worldvirtual world
Simulated digital environment
cyberspace · virtual reality · virtual environment · cyberworld · meatspace
world, physical, worldwide, physics, worldly, worlds, physician, otherworldly, underworld