embodiment

[ em-bod-ee-muh nt ]

/ ɛmˈbɒd i mənt /

the act of embodying.

the state or fact of being embodied.

a person, being, or thing embodying a spirit, principle, abstraction, etc; incarnation.

something embodied.

Origin of embodiment

First recorded in 1820–30; embody + -ment

pre·em·bod·i·ment, noun

But what is it like to be the embodiment of that, as an ethnically ambiguous individual?

What It's Like To Be Ambiguously Ethnic |The Daily Beast Video |November 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This Palmer stands for elegance and sophistication: the embodiment of natural gifts, both athletic and personal.

Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up |Tom Boswell |September 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
One interpretation suggests he is the embodiment of whisky, a lewd allusion to a tenured tradition of Scottish alcoholism.

Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality |Noah Caldwell |September 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
If Daylyt was an embodiment of what battle rap can be, Murda Mook is a precision-tuned instrument of absolute lyrical destruction.

America’s Poets: Battle Rap Gets Real |Rich Goldstein |July 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

“Within its 1806 embodiment of the cocktail incarnate—spirit, sweetner, bitters, water—there is traditionalism,” Simonson writes.

The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again of the Old-Fashioned |Allison McNearney |June 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Jean, who was in herself the embodiment of youth, of health, of joy.

A Question of Marriage |Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Sitting across the aisle from her was a young lady, who to Rosa seemed the embodiment of beauty and elegance.

Rosa's Quest |Anna Potter Wright
To Europe at large this embodiment of the Revolution in the new sovereign was soon made equally evident.

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte |William Milligan Sloane
It was I who had been considered reckless, while Harry was looked upon as the embodiment of prudence and wisdom.

The White Rose of Memphis |William C. Falkner
He is the embodiment of routine and conservatism, because he is the embodiment of mediocrity.

The Curse of Education |Harold E. Gorst