corporeal

English

Etymology

From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus +‎ -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.

Pronunciation

• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/

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• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /kɔːˈpɔːɹiəl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

Adjective

corporeal (comparative more corporeal, superlative most corporeal)

1. Material; tangible; physical.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.

   • 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 373:

     She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.

   • 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:

     Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); sometimes the vital world to the pregivenness of the dead corporeal world (as in the empathy theory of life, espoused, among others, by Descartes and Theodor Lipps); sometimes the assumption of a co-world to a pregivenness of the own inner world of the assuming subject combined with that of an outer corporeal world (theories of analogy to and empathy with the consciousness of others);

2. (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.

Synonyms

• (of matter): substantial, earthly
• (of the body): bodily, corporal

Antonyms

• (of matter): ethereal, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible
• (either sense): spiritual

Derived terms

• bicorporeal
• concorporeal
• corporealisation
• corporealise
• corporealism
• corporealist
• corporeality
• corporealization
• corporealize
• corporeally
• corporealness
• extracorporeal
• hemicorporeal
• intercorporeal
• intracorporeal
• noncorporeal
• omnicorporeal
• paracorporeal
• supercorporeal
• tricorporeal
• uncorporeal

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krep- (0 c, 14 e)

Translations

material; tangible; physical

• Bulgarian: тленен (bg) (tlenen), веществен (bg) (veštestven), материален (bg) (materialen)
• Spanish: corpóreo (es)

bodily — see bodily

Anagrams

• Poor Clare, car pooler, car-pooler, carpooler, corporale