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CORPOREAL

Dictionary entry overview: What does corporeal mean?

• CORPOREAL (adjective)
The adjective CORPOREAL has 2 senses:

1. having material or physical form or substance
2. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

Familiarity information: CORPOREAL used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CORPOREAL (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Having material or physical form or substance

Synonyms:

corporeal; material

Context example:

that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible

Similar:

bodily (having or relating to a physical material body)

bodied; corporal; corporate; embodied; incarnate (possessing or existing in bodily form)

reincarnate (having a new body)

Also:

bodied (having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination)

Attribute:

corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)

Antonym:

incorporeal (without material form or substance)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

Synonyms:

corporal; somatic; bodily; corporeal

Context examples:

bodily needs / a corporal defect / corporeal suffering / a somatic symptom or somatic illness

Similar:

physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)

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