corporeity

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French corporéité or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin corporeitas, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔːpəˈɹiːɪti/, /kɔːpəˈɹeɪɪti/

Noun

corporeity (countable and uncountable, plural corporeities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 56)

     Determining what was unique about living beings, he postulated the ‘corporeity’ of a soul […] , common to beast and man alike.

2. (countable) A body, a physical substance.

Translations

quality or fact

• German: Körperlichkeit (de) f, Leiblichkeit (de) f
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body

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