physicality

[ fiz-i-kal-i-tee ]

noun

, plural phys·i·cal·i·ties.

1. the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
2. preoccupation with one's body, physical needs, or appetites.

physicality

/ ˌfɪzɪˈkælɪtɪ /

noun

1. the state or quality of being physical
2. the physical characteristics of a person, object, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of physicality¹

First recorded in 1585–95; physical + -ity

Example Sentences

I can be hunched over, or push my chest out more and give Caesar strength and physicality.

From The Daily Beast

But there is a lot that can be conveyed about attraction and drive and everything surrounding the actual physicality of it.

From The Daily Beast

For a Disney heroine, finding empowerment in her own feminine physicality, for herself and not the prince, is revolutionary.

From The Daily Beast

The NFL seems a particularly complicated place for this to change given the extreme masculinity and the physicality of the sport.

From The Daily Beast

It was conveying the passion of it and the physicality of it, but also the romance of it.

From The Daily Beast

By reason of his deficient physicality the Cerebral can not be said to possess any decided physical assets.

From Project Gutenberg

Their conscious being was not fully exempt from physicality and the sense of sin.

From Project Gutenberg