Meanings
plural incorporealities
- uncountableusuallyThe state or characteristic of being incorporeal.
God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.
2003, James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, →ISBN, page 5071 more example
The tax payer does not know, and has no means of knowing, who the particular individuals are who compose "the government." To him "the government" is a myth, an abstraction, an incorporeality, with which he can make no contract, and to which he can give no consent, and make no pledge.
1870, Lysander Spooner, No Treason, Number 6, page 15Synonyms: disembodiedness, incorporeity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or characteristic of being incorporeal.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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