corporeality

English

Etymology

corporeal +‎ -ity

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.

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)

References

“corporeality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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