different between living vs fleshly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v??/
• Rhymes: -?v??

Verb

living

1. present participle of live

Adjective

living (not comparable)

1. Having life; alive.

   a living, breathing child

   Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
2. In use or existing.

3. Of everyday life.

4. True to life.

5. Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
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7. Used as an intensifier.

Synonyms

• (having life): extant, living, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
• (existing): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
• (representing life): lifey, lifelike, limned, lively, naturalistic
• (intensifier): blasted, doggone, stinking; see also Thesaurus:damned

Antonyms

• dead
• nonliving

Hyponyms

• long-living
• longest-living

Related terms

Related terms

• live, life
• alive

Translations

Noun

living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)

1. (uncountable) The state of being alive.
2. Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

   What do you do for a living?

3. A style of life.

   plain living

4. (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

Derived terms

• it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
• make a living

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French living or less plausibly an independent truncated borrowing from English living room.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.v??/
• Hyphenation: li?ving

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. (Belgium) A living room.

   Synonyms: huiskamer, woonkamer

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.vi?/

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. living room

Italian

Etymology

From English living room.

Noun

living m (plural living)

1. living room

   Synonym: soggiorno

Spanish

Etymology

From English [[living room#English|living (room)]].

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. (Argentina) living room

   Synonym: sala de estar

English

Etymology

From flesh +? -ly.

Adjective

fleshly (comparative fleshlier, superlative fleshliest)

1. Of or relating to the body.

   Synonyms: bodily, corporeal

   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 2,^[1]

     […] in the body of this fleshly land,

     This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,

     Hostility and civil tumult reigns

     Between my conscience and my cousin’s death.

   • 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso” in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 40,^[2]

     […] to unfold

     What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold

     The immortal mind that hath forsook

     Her mansion in this fleshly nook:

   • 1668, John Denham, “The Progress of Learning” Part 3, in Poems and Translations; with the Sophy, London: Jacob Tonson, 5th edition, 1709, p. 234,^[3]

     When from their fleshly Bondage they are free,

     Then what divine, and future things they see!

   • 1795, Richard Cumberland, Henry, London: Charles Dilly, Volume 3, Chapter 7, p. 58,^[4]

     those inward pains that agonize us more than all our fleshly wounds

   • 1926, Walter de la Mare, “Missing” in Best Stories of Walter de la Mare, London: Faber and Faber, 1942, p. 175,^[5]

     We shook hands—though I doubt if a mere fleshly contact can express much while the self behind it is dumb with instinctive distaste.

2. Of, relating to or resembling flesh; composed of flesh; having a lot of flesh.

   Synonym: fleshy

   • 1608, Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, London: Walter Burre, Act II,^[6]

     […] lay on load enough vpon e’m, and spare e’m not, for the’re good plump fleshly Asses, and may well enough beare it:

   • 1793, uncredited translator, The Natural History of Birds by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell and J. Murray, Volume 2, pp. 52-53,^[7]

     In almost all birds, except the carnivorous kinds, the male seems to have more power of development, which appears in their greater height, the strength of their muscles, and in certain excrescences, as fleshly membranes, spurs, &c. […]

   • 1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, London: Penguin, Chapter 1, p. 14,^[8]

     He touched the leaves of some of the glossy bushes to find out whether they felt as fleshly as they looked. [At least one U.S. edition has fleshy]^[9]

3. Of or relating to pleasurable (often sexual) sensations.

   Synonyms: carnal, lascivious, sensual

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Peter 2.11,^[10]

     […] abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

   • 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: Modern Library, 1932, Part 4, Chapter 2, p. 238,^[11]

     A wave of desire for furious fleshly enjoyments went through him, making him want steaming dishes of food drenched in rich, spice-flavored sauces; making him want to get drunk on strong wine; to roll on thick carpets in the arms of naked, libidinous women.

4. Of or relating to non-spiritual or non-religious matters.

   Synonyms: secular, worldly

   Antonyms: heavenly, spiritual

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 2 Corinthians 1.12,^[12]

     […] in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world […]

   • 1857, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Volume 2, Chapter 8,^[13]

     Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution: a self-obtrusive, over-hasty reformer complacently disclaiming all merit, while his friends call him a martyr, has not in reality a career the most arduous to the fleshly mind.

Derived terms

• fleshliness
• unfleshly

Translations

Adverb

fleshly (comparative more fleshly, superlative most fleshly)

1. (archaic) In a sensual way; in a sexual way; carnally.
   • 1992, Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994, p. 24,^[14]

     And the drunkard is with drink. And the ploughman is with his oxen. And the inhabitant of Ulverton doth loll fleshly abed.