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corporeity

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

noun

  1. material or physical nature or quality; materiality.


corporeity British  
/ ˌkɔːpəˈriːɪtɪ /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of corporeity

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


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Another, where affections originating in the mind and belonging to it, are in order to be felt, and to be as if found, invested with corporeity.

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

Logically considered, however, there is but one genus of all bodies, since they are all included in the one notion of corporeity.

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

The corporeal was supposed co-essential with the antecedent of its corporeity.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Around the centre of the sentient individuality these specifications arrange themselves more simply than when they are developed in the natural corporeity.

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

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