What does "corporeity" mean?

The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.

What is a synonym for "corporeity"?

Common synonyms include: embodiment, flesh, flesh and blood, stuff, substance, substantiality.

Pronounced //kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i//.

//kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i// noun

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Noun

1
The quality or fact of having a physical or material body. uncountable
"Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being."
2
A body, a physical substance. countable

"Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being."

From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).

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