Any suggestions, please?

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Sat Sep 11 13:47:35 UTC 2010


On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:31 +1000
Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Not that long ago some American, on a TV programme - politician or a 
> reporter or some such mammal - came out with the word, "physicality". 
> Both my wife looked at each other and said, "WHAT?!".

Looking at you and you wife and wondering, "what?"  It (not as just an
Americanism) exists:

cybe at WizardsTower:~$ dict physicality
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
[gcide]:

  physicality \physicality\ n.
     A preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and
     appetites; -- of people.
  
     Syn: animalism.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  physicality
      n 1: preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and
           appetites [syn: {animalism}, {physicality}]

Cybe R. Wizard
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