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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

incorporeality en · NOUN

Etymology

From incorporeal + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The state or characteristic of being incorporeal.
    • God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied. 2003, James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, →ISBN, page 507:
    • 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:

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Synonyms

disembodiedness · incorporeity