corporeality

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From corporeal + -ity.

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 her face. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy
As always in a crowd, an odd sense of impersonality possessed him, of aloofness; in it he was forgetful of his own presence, of his own corporeality; became as a Mind seeking out its own. — Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain, C. Bryson Taylor
"Thus, man is considered, not in his corporeality, but in his essence or capability of being; for a man, metaphysically, or to metaphysical purposes, hath two natures, that of spirituality, and that of corporeality, which may be considered separate." — The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886, Ontario. Department of Education

materiality, physicalness, corporality

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