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Corporeality

noun

(pl. corporealities)

The quality of being physical; consisting of matter. Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness.

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... of fascination the three girls, one after another, crept out of their beds, and came and stood barefooted round Tess. Retty put her hands upon Tess's shoulders, as if to realize her friend's corporeality after such a miracle, and the other two laid their arms round her waist, all looking into ...

— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy

... are connected with the lake and the little stream, the Luinnipiac, which empties into it. One day Frederick skated miles up the stream to follow it to its source. On the way he was accompanied by a hovering shadow, the corporeality of which he never for a moment doubted. It resembled the stoker Zickelmann who had died on the Roland, not the Zickelmann that he had seen lying stretched out a corpse in the stoke-hole, but the Zickelmann he ...

— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

Words linked to "Corporeality" : incorporeality, corporality, substantialness, palpability, material, tangibility, corporeal, immateriality, nonmaterial, concreteness, reality, tangibleness, materiality, substantiality, quality, immaterial, solidness, incorporeal