corporeity
English
Etymology
From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔːpəˈɹiːɪti/, /kɔːpəˈɹeɪɪti/
Noun
corporeity (countable and uncountable, plural corporeities)
- (uncountable) The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 56)
- 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 2004, p. 56)
- (countable) A body, a physical substance.
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