humorality

English

Etymology

humoral +‎ -ity

Noun

humorality (uncountable)

1. (historical) A specific health and temperament that was believed to arise from an individual's balance of humors.
   • 2010, Gail Kern Paster, Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage, page 220:

     In a pneumatic context, the claim to humorality is thus also, implicitly, a claim upon deference and a demand for social accommodation.

   • 2019, Amy Kenny, Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage, page 4:

     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.

   • 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:

     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?.