Meaning of humorality | Babel Free

Definitions

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

historical, uncountable

Examples

“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?.”

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