PHYSICALITY Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

physicality

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as in sensuality

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Recent Examples of physicality Despite adding more height and physicality in this summer’s transfer market, Chelsea are still operating at an aerial disadvantage to many of their Premier League opponents. — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Pugh’s performance is a master class in physicality and flair, one of her career bests. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2026 The league formed an offseason officiating task force that included an effort to clean up some of the WNBA’s issues regarding physicality and officiating. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 Iheanachor's promotion added a dose of physicality on the line, and Pittsburgh was dynamic. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for physicality

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Noun

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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