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CORPOREAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corporeal mean? 

CORPOREAL (adjective)
  The adjective CORPOREAL has 2 senses:

1. having material or physical form or substanceplay

2. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spiritplay

  Familiarity information: CORPOREAL used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CORPOREAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having material or physical form or substance

Synonyms:

corporeal; material

Context example:

that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible

Similar:

bodily (having or relating to a physical material body)

bodied; corporal; corporate; embodied; incarnate (possessing or existing in bodily form)

reincarnate (having a new body)

Also:

bodied (having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination)

Attribute:

corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)

Antonym:

incorporeal (without material form or substance)

Derivation:

corporeality (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

Synonyms:

bodily; corporal; corporeal; somatic

Context example:

a somatic symptom or somatic illness

Similar:

physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)


 Context examples 


It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Martin Eden, the famous writer, was a vapor that had arisen in the mob-mind and by the mob-mind had been thrust into the corporeal being of Mart Eden, the hoodlum and sailor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We all looked on in horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass in through the interstice where scarce a knife-blade could have gone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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