corporeity

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UK/kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/UK/kɔː.pəˈɹeɪ.ɪt.i/

noun

The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.

OriginFrench corporéité ← Medieval Latin corporeitas ← Latin corporeus →
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Meanings

nouncorporeity (countable and uncountable, plural corporeities)

plural corporeities

  1. uncountableThe quality or fact of having a physical or material body.

    Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.

    1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 105
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    Determining what was unique about living beings, he postulated the ‘corporeity’ of a soul […], common to beast and man alike.

    2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 56
  2. countableA body, a physical substance.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
stuffsubstance

Origin

  1. Latincorporeus
  2. Medieval Latincorporeitas
  3. Frenchcorporéité
  4. Englishcorporeity

From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).

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Translations

German Körperlichkeit, Leiblichkeit
  • Körperlichkeitquality or fact
  • Leiblichkeitquality or fact
Italian corporeità
  • corporeitàquality or fact
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APA

corporeity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corporeity

MLA

“corporeity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corporeity. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “corporeity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corporeity.

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