corporeality

English

Etymology

Noun

corporeality (countable and uncountable, plural corporealities)

(uncountable) The state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.
- 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 9:
  And so these spirits are in constant search for vessels to occupy, and insatiable in their pursuit of corporeality.
Synonym: (obsolete) corporality

Antonyms: ethereality, incorporeality, insubstantiality, intangibility, otherworldliness; see also Thesaurus:cosmic

See also: uncorporeal, spiritual, mystical, transcendence
(countable) Something having a corporeal existence.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corporeality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Translations

The state of being corporeal

Bulgarian: вещественост m (veštestvenost), материалност (bg) m (materialnost)
French: corporéité (fr) f, corporalité (fr) f
Korean: 신체성(身體性) (sincheseong)

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