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

For the past several billion years, life has had to learn to make do with its own imperfect corporeity—fuzzy eyesight, limited hearing, and so on.

From The New Yorker

For the past several billion years, life has had to learn to make do with its own imperfect corporeity—fuzzy eyesight, limited hearing, and so on.

From The New Yorker

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

From Project Gutenberg

“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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• element
• material
• thing