corporeity

American  

[kawr-puh-ree-i-tee] / ˌkɔr pəˈri ɪ ti /

noun

1. material or physical nature or quality; materiality.

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corporeity British  

/ ˌkɔːpəˈriːɪtɪ /

noun

1. bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality

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Etymology

Origin of corporeity

1615–25; < Medieval Latin corporeitās, equivalent to Latin corpore ( us ) corporeal + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

And he moreover says, that when the inflammation is throughout, it lives and is an animal, but being again extinct and thickened, it is turned into water and earth and corporeity.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

But all bodies have the same form, corporeity.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It is the corporeity reduced to its mere ideality; and so far only does corporeity belong to the soul as such.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Finally, the draughtsman in full possession of a feeling for the corporeity of the object will determine his contour entirely from within, a procedure which is the exact opposite to that of his first beginnings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

Here, forsooth, he plainly says, that the inanimate parts of the world are by inflammation turned into an animated thing, and that again by extinction the soul is relaxed and moistened, being changed into corporeity.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Related Words

• element
• material
• thing