CORPOREALITY Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

corporeality

noun

(ˌ)kȯr-ˌpȯr-ē-ˈa-lə-tē

Definition of corporeality

as in existence

the fact of being or of being real a philosophical discussion about the corporeality of the intellect, as distinct from the brain

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Recent Examples of corporeality There ’s Mother’s tongue and your eyes and me, my body, my bodies, my corporeality? — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025 Murata, like Sciamma, is remaking the traditional love story, transcending the constraints dictated not by gender but by embodied corporeality itself. — Elif Batuman, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 While working on their second album, two members of Mandy, Indiana—the Mancunian quartet fronted by a French valkyrie named Valentine Caulfield—were faced with their own corporeality. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 5 Feb. 2026 The concept of a holographic universe, explored already in the 1950s by physicist David Bohm reflects a corporeality where material and immaterial dimensions operate not as separate entities but in a constant dance of mutual influence. — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024

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existence

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San Jose has 18 regular-season games remaining to secure a playoff spot for the second time in the franchise’s three years of existence.

— Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
The fact that this would have to be an invisible and infinite material that doesn't interact with physical objects made the existence of the luminiferous ether highly controversial.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2026

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