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say it: em-BAH-dee-muhnt
embodiment is a noun meaning "a new personification of a familiar idea". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a new personification of a familiar idea
“the embodiment of hope”
“the incarnation of evil”
“the very avatar of cunning”
a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
“a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life”
giving concrete form to an abstract concept
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for embodiment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.