corporeity
nounUK /kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/
Etymology From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).
1
The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
- Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 105:
- Determining what was unique about living beings, he postulated the ‘corporeity’ of a soul […], common to beast and man alike.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 56:
2
A body, a physical substance.