humorality
humorality noun: a specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.
Noun
humorality (uncountable)
- A specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.
- In a pneumatic context, the claim to humorality is thus also, implicitly, a claim upon deference and a demand for social accommodation.2010, Gail Kern Paster, Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage, page 220
- 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.2019, Amy Kenny, Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage, page 4
Origin of humorality
From humoral + -ity.
Questions about humorality
- What does humorality mean?
- Humorality means a specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.
- What part of speech is humorality?
- Humorality is a noun.
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