Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

humorality

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hu-moral-i-ty
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In a pneumatic context, the claim to humorality is thus also, implicitly, a claim upon deference and a demand for social accommodation."
"By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior."
"For instance, how might Galenic humorality be perceived beyond the immediate example of the human body whose fabric we have grown accustomed to seeing as Galenically inflected?."

Etymology

From humoral + -ity.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: humoral

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does humorality mean?: A specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.
Where does humorality come from?: From humoral + -ity.

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