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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

corporeity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kɔː.pəˈɹeɪ.ɪt.i/ (UK)
  • /kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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

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Translations (3)

it corporeità (quality or fact) · de Körperlichkeit (quality or fact) · de Leiblichkeit (quality or fact)