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CORPORALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being physical; consisting of matter
Synonyms:
corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("corporality" 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 "corporality"):
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)