Synonyms for incarnation
Most common
embodiment instantiation avatar manifestation personification
All synonyms
Noun
1. Embodiment — A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
embodiment, realization UK US, realisation UK, instantiation
Other
avatar, personification, manifestation, impersonation, impersonization dated
Definitions
- n. 1
A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
Related words
- Word family
- incarnate
Forms
- Plural
- incarnations → embodiments, realizations, instantiations, avatars…
Example sentences
- embodiment He's the perfect embodiment of the sad bachelor.
- avatar Tom's avatar is queerer than a three-dollar bill.
- manifestation Human and animal sacrifice is manifestation of Satanism.
- personification Tom is the personification of an inferiority complex.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| incarnation | rising | |
| embodiment | rising | |
| instantiation | rising | |
| avatar | rising | |
| manifestation | rising | |
| personification | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- avatar3
- 10 letters
- embodiment4
- 11 letters
- realization4, realisation4
- 13 letters
- manifestation5, impersonation5, instantiation5
- 15 letters
- personification6, impersonization
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (avatar3 = 3 syllables).