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corporeity

[kawr-puh-ree-i-tee]
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noun
  1. material or physical nature or quality; materiality.
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Origin of corporeity

1615–25; < Medieval Latin corporeitās, equivalent to Latin corpore(us) corporeal + -itās -ity
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Examples from the Web for corporeity

Historical Examples

  • If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal."

    The Ego and His Own

    Max Stirner

  • The pious wish of the ancients was sanctity, the pious wish of the moderns is corporeity.

  • Corporeity, the other, by which they are distinguish'd one from the other, viz.

  • Gravity in the one, and Levity in the other, which were superadded to the Essence of Corporeity.

  • The big water surface was as a corporeity radiating from the beholder existing only in and with the beholder.

    On the Seaboard

    August Strindberg

British Dictionary definitions for corporeity

corporeity

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