BODILY PROPERTY

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Meaning:

An attribute of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("bodily property" is a kind of...):

property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bodily property"):

bipedalism (the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet)

dominance; laterality (superior development of one side of the body)

body-build; build; habitus; physique (constitution of the human body)

avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness (excess bodily weight)

leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

height; stature ((of a standing person) the distance from head to foot)

bearing; carriage; posture (characteristic way of bearing one's body)

physiology (processes and functions of an organism)

physiological property (a property having to do with the functioning of the body)

attitude; position; posture (the arrangement of the body and its limbs)