incorporeity

American  

[in-kawr-puh-ree-i-tee] / ˌɪn kɔr pəˈri ɪ ti /

noun

1. the quality of being incorporeal; disembodied existence or entity; incorporeality.

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Etymology

Origin of incorporeity

1595–1605; < Medieval Latin incorporeitās, equivalent to Latin incorpore ( us ) incorporeal + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

Though Kalanithi lacks Coutts’s Shakespearean nuance, he is a literate, first-rate reporter in the vanguard of a modern battle, and he writes with the urgency of his looming incorporeity.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2016

Whose capacity embraces spirituality, immateriality, incorporeity, or the mysteries of which he is every day informed?

From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Let us assign incorporeity to God alone even as we do immortality, whose nature alone, neither for its own sake nor on account of anything else, needs the help of any corporeal organ.

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

If incorporeity is the motive-power of this nature, it no longer exists independently; it, in fact, exists no longer than the subject to which it is inherent subsists.

From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

And so, as I by my Zeus-given incorporeity was the one person who had a good view of the scene at large, you must pardon me for having withheld the veil of indirect narration.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir