Physicalized

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The process of converting intangible thoughts or emotions into a concrete manifestation can involve various mediums or expressions
2. Transformed into a perceptible or bodily form that can be observed or experienced
3. Rendered into physical shape or presence from non-material origin

Etymology: "Physicalized" is the past tense and past participle of "physicalize," which is built from "physical" plus the suffix "-ize." The base "physical" comes ultimately from Medieval Latin "physicalis," relating to natural things, and it was the "-ize" ending, from Greek "-izein" via Latin "-izare," that allowed English to turn an adjective into a verb meaning to make something take on a particular quality. So "physicalize" literally means to make something physical, and "physicalized" describes a thing that has been made physical in that sense. In the sense given here, the verb reverses the usual direction of the word's core meaning. Something abstract, such as an idea, feeling or belief, is given a bodily or visible form, whether through sculpture, dance, performance or any other medium. The word therefore takes a term rooted in the material world and applies it to the act of giving the immaterial a material existence.

Synonyms: embodied, manifested