incorporality
incorporality is the obsolete form of incorporeality.
Meaning of incorporeality
Noun
incorporeality (usually uncountable, plural incorporealities)
- The state or characteristic of being incorporeal.
- The tax payer does not know, and has no means of knowing, who the particular individuals are who compose "the government." To him "the government" is a myth, an abstraction, an incorporeality, with which he can make no contract, and to which he can give no consent, and make no pledge.1870, Lysander Spooner, No Treason, Number 6, page 15
- Synonyms:
- disembodiedness, incorporeity
Forms of incorporality
| plural | incorporalities |
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Origin of incorporality
Latin incorporalitas: compare French incorporalité.
Questions about incorporality
- What is incorporality the obsolete form of?
- Incorporality is the obsolete form of incorporeality.
Words near incorporality in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incorporality (page history and authors); incorporeality (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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