Word Of The Day

Somatic:

  1. Relating to the body, especially as distinct from the mind.
    ‘patients completed a questionnaire about their somatic and psychological symptoms’ [Oxford Dictionaries]

Noted in “A Fitbit fit over our measuring mania,” William J. Kilfoil, The Chronicle Herald:

Albert and I are both past our best-before dates, but Albert’s decline is strictly somatic — mentally, he’s as sharp as ever. I always look forward to hearing his unvarnished point of view on current events, so we agree to meet in the parking lot and drive together over to Tim’s for a bit of chewing the fat and coffee.

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