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corporeality

corporeality

1 9.6
The state of being physical and having a body
  • noun
  • /kɔːrˌpɔːriˈælɪti/
  • Formal
translation icon : corporeidad
  • The concept of corporeality emphasizes the importance of a physical body in our experiences.
  • corporeality and relationality
  • corporeality and spatiality
  • cosmic corporeality

It is externalizing itself into complete corporeality, he says.

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Examples

  • I have traveled quite a distance in this investigation of joy, as it relates to corporeality, through imagination, to the wider world.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The body is the seat of sensory experience, the second category within corporeality.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Without my corporeality, his soul is no more than a current of air, a soul never given breath.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Is God simply a chimera of our making to explain the vast and complex corporeality of everything?

    Blog text (28)
  • We begin with embodiment, one of the four aspects of corporeality.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Their corporeality is clearly indicated, not least by Circumspection's act of supporting them with her hands.

    Academic text (2007)
  • How can it calm you down when it's presented in a purely conceptual form, bereft of corporeality?

  • By asking men to assist in the realization of their corporeality, spirits are able to participate in this world in a tangible way.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Human creativity, a third aspect of corporeality, is dependent on corporeality and, through this, is connected to embodied spirituality.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Cosmic corporeality also accents the linkage between humanity and the cosmos.

    Academic text (2009)

Synonyms

physicality
vscorporeality
7 5.9

A clear feeling of the body and its movement

refers more generally to existing in bodily or material form
materiality
vscorporeality
3 7.9

Physical existence of something you can touch or see

is the same bodily quality but named more abstractly
physicalness
vscorporeality
1 7.2

Being made of things you can touch

describes bodily existence in general rather than active presence
corporeity
vscorporeality
  • Formal
9.9

Having a physical body instead of being only spiritual

is the general condition of existing in bodily or material form
corporality
vscorporeality
  • Formal
9.9

A person, animal or thing that has a real body

focuses on bodily existence as a broad quality rather than specific instances
bodiliness
vscorporeality
8.4

The quality of having a physical body rather than being only a mind

describes the wider condition of existing in material form

Antonyms

71 6.3

A concern with the inner life and connection beyond physical things

Something you cannot touch, like an idea or feeling

A state of having no physical body or shape

How Physical

physicality
7 5.9
materiality
3 7.9
corporeality
  • Formal
1 9.6

Surface Forms

corporeality singular

Morphology

corporeality = corporeal (transparent) = corporeal + ity

The suffix '-ity' forms a noun indicating a state or quality from the adjective 'corporeal'.

Etymology

Corporeality comes from the Latin word corpus, which means 'body', and is the same root as the English word corpse. So corporeality means 'having a body' or being physical.