corporeity

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔː.pəˈɹiː.ɪt.i/, /kɔː.pəˈɹeɪ.ɪt.i/

corporeity (countable and uncountable, plural corporeities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
   • 1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 105:

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

   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 56:

     Determining what was unique about living beings, he postulated the ‘corporeity’ of a soul […] , common to beast and man alike.

2. (countable) A body, a physical substance.