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.
(countable) A body, a physical substance.

Translations

quality or fact

German: Körperlichkeit (de) f, Leiblichkeit (de) f

body

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