corporeal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/ rhotic
- /kɔːˈpɔːɹiəl/ non-rhotic
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Etymology
From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.
Meanings
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Material; tangible; physical.
She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.
2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 373:Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); sometimes the vital world to the pregivenness of the dead corporeal world (as in the empathy theory of life, espoused, among others, by Descartes and Theodor Lipps); sometimes the assumption of a co-world to a pregivenness of the own inner world of the assuming subject combined with that of an outer corporeal world (theories of analogy to and empathy with the consciousness of others);
2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more corporeal | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most corporeal | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
incorporeal (of matter) · insubstantial (of matter) · ethereal (of matter) · intangible (of matter) · spiritual (either sense)
Deriveds
corporealize · corporealist · omnicorporeal · corporealization · hemicorporeal · concorporeal · intracorporeal · noncorporeal · paracorporeal · supercorporeal · corporealisation · corporeally · bicorporeal · corporealness · extracorporeal · uncorporeal · corporealise · tricorporeal · corporeality · corporealism · intercorporeal
Synonyms
substantial (of matter) · earthly (of matter) · corporal (of the body) · bodily (of the body)
Translations (8)
pl fizyczny (material; tangible; physical) · bg тленен (material; tangible; physical) · es corpóreo (bodily) · pl cielesny (material; tangible; physical) · bg материален (material; tangible; physical) · es corpóreo (material; tangible; physical) · pl materialny (material; tangible; physical) · bg веществен (material; tangible; physical)