corporealism

English

Etymology

corporeal +‎ -ism

Noun

corporealism (countable and uncountable, plural corporealisms)

1. (philosophy, dated) Materialism.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     That the Democritic philosophy, which is made up of these two principles, Corporealism and Atomism complicated together, is essentially Atheistical

2. (sociology) The use of physical attributes as a criterion or value (royal blood, race, multiracialism, inability, physical abilities).

Synonyms

• antimentalism, antimentalism
• non-mentalism, nonmentalism

Antonyms

• intellectualism
• mentalism

References

“corporealism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.