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

Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav

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