Meanings
- historicaluncountableA 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 2202 more examples
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 4For 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?.
2021, Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson, “Introduction—Everyday Humoralism”, in Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson, editor, Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance, page 2
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