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CORPOREALITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does corporeality mean?

• CORPOREALITY (noun)
The noun CORPOREALITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being physical; consisting of matter

Familiarity information: CORPOREALITY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CORPOREALITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being physical; consisting of matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

corporality; corporeality; physicalness; materiality

Hypernyms ("corporeality" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

material (derived from or composed of matter)

immaterial; nonmaterial (not consisting of matter)

corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)

immaterial; incorporeal (without material form or substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corporeality"):

concreteness (the quality of being concrete (not abstract))

palpability; tangibility; tangibleness (the quality of being perceivable by touch)

solidness; substantiality; substantialness (the quality of being substantial or having substance)

reality (the quality possessed by something that is real)

Antonym:

incorporeality (the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter)

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