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PHYSICALNESS
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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 ("physicalness" 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 "physicalness"):
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)
Derivation:
physical (having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses)
physical (concerned with material things)
physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)
