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corporality

corporality noun: the state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.

Noun

corporality (countable and uncountable, plural corporalities)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.
    • there is one Mundane spright / And body, vitall corporality We have from hence.1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    corporeality
    Antonyms:
    ethereality
  2. (obsolete) A confraternity; a guild.
    • Whence may be guessed what their function was : was it to go about circled with a band of rooking officials , with cloakbags full of citations , and processes to be served by a corporality of griffonlike promoters and apparitors ?1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC

Synonyms of corporality

Antonyms

Forms of corporality

pluralcorporalities

Origin of corporality

From Latin corporālitās. By surface analysis, corporal + -ity.

Questions about corporality

What does corporality mean?
Corporality means the state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.
What part of speech is corporality?
Corporality is a noun.
What is the plural of corporality?
The plural of corporality is corporalities.

Words near corporality in the dictionary

  1. corporal punishments
  2. corporal's guard
  3. corporale
  4. corporales
  5. corporalities
  6. corporality
  7. corporally
  8. corporally punish
  9. corporalness
  10. corporals
  11. corporalship

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