corporeity

[ kawr-puh-ree-i-tee ]

noun

1. material or physical nature or quality; materiality.

corporeity

/ ˌkɔːpəˈriːɪtɪ /

noun

1. bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality

Word History and Origins

Origin of corporeity¹

1615–25; < Medieval Latin corporeitās, equivalent to Latin corpore ( us ) corporeal + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

The Gnostics and other cultured men were satisfied, but the lower classes wanted a more tangible character, a physical corporeity.

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“The rational being cannot realise its efficient individuality, unless it ascribes to itself a material body”: a body, moreover, in which Fichte believes he can show that the details of structure and organs are equally with the general corporeity predetermined by reason51.

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Another, where affections originating in the mind and belonging to it, are in order to be felt, and to be as if found, invested with corporeity.

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It is the corporeity reduced to its mere ideality; and so far only does corporeity belong to the soul as such.

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And consciousness it becomes, when the corporeity, of which it is the subjective substance, and which still continues to exist, and that as a barrier for it, has been absorbed by it, and it has been invested with the character of self-centred subject.

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Related Words

• element
• material
• thing