corporealism en · NOUN
Etymology
From corporeal + -ism.
Meanings
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(countable, dated, uncountable) Materialism.
That the Democritic philosophy, which is made up of these two principles, Corporealism and Atomism complicated together, is essentially Atheistical
1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- (countable, uncountable) The use of physical attributes as a criterion or value (royal blood, race, multiracialism, inability, physical abilities).
- (countable, uncountable) The belief that God has a physical body, as opposed to being immaterial.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| corporealisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |