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corporeity

UK/kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/

corporeity noun: the quality or fact of having a physical or material body.

Noun

corporeity (countable and uncountable, plural corporeities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
    • Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 105
    • Determining what was unique about living beings, he postulated the ‘corporeity’ of a soul […], common to beast and man alike.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 56
  2. (countable) A body, a physical substance.

Forms of corporeity

pluralcorporeities

Origin of corporeity

From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).

Questions about corporeity

What does corporeity mean?
Corporeity means the quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
What part of speech is corporeity?
Corporeity is a noun.
How do you pronounce corporeity?
Corporeity is pronounced /kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/ (UK).
What is the plural of corporeity?
The plural of corporeity is corporeities.

Words near corporeity in the dictionary

  1. corporealizing
  2. corporeally
  3. corporealness
  4. corporeals
  5. corporeities
  6. corporeity
  7. corporeographies
  8. corporeography
  9. corporeous
  10. corporicity
  11. corporification

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