incorporeity

[in-kawr-puh-ree-i-tee]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of incorporeity¹

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.

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For it was wholly and entirely within her, a sudden, incontestable, everlasting truth, a felt fact, so real in its ethereal incorporeity that it seemed to her as if, until that moment, she had never known, never thought, never felt.

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In its incorporeity, it is a ready scapegoat word, like State, Establishment, the Right, the Left.

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The arguments for the existence, unity, and incorporeity of God divide the Arabic philosophers into two schools.

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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.

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