PHYSICALITY Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

physicality

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Recent Examples of physicality Iheanachor's promotion added a dose of physicality on the line, and Pittsburgh was dynamic. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 Walker has not only provided some explosiveness and physicality in the Chiefs’ running game but has been so good that last week the Colts built their entire defensive game plan around him. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026 That experience connected him with the physicality of the role, but also its spirituality. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026 This gets into the run game, play-calling and penalties for the offense, and physicality, run defense, pass rush and blown coverages for the defense. — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for physicality

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Named after the famous Parisian district and first introduced in 2004, the style has become a Louboutin signature with its sleek proportions expressing the sensuality embedded in the brand.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2026
But those who crowded into Krasner’s 1958 show at Martha Jackson’s New York gallery, her first since Pollock’s death, encountered her Earth Green series—paintings that exploded in vibrant color and exuded life, sensuality, fecundity, and freedom.

— Mary Gabriel, Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026

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The rich textures and thick ambiance of The Eyes of Others are pure high modernist 1960s Italian cinema, but De Sica unfurls the film’s winding intrigues with a contemporary sense of suspense, carnality, and visual boldness.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
But as Maud's God begins to talk back, and her desperate pleas for divine intervention send her into fits of orgasmic fervor and desperate carnality, Glass hints at the depths of mania powering the nurse's dedication.

— Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025

Definition of carnality

Noun

In other words, humans can act against the animal component of their nature and manifest their humanity by rejecting their animality.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025
This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025

Definition of animality

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