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How to pronounce corporeality in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms corporality, materiality, physicalness
Type of quality
Has types tangibleness, palpability, reality, solidness, substantiality, substantialness, tangibility, concreteness
Derivation corporeal

Examples of corporeality

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She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He's adept at modeling and shading fleshly contours, and his subjects are often awkwardly posed to emphasize the sheer corporeality of their presence.
From the washingtonpost.com
The universality of death, the contingent corporeality of human existence and the indiscriminate horror of war all writ large on the grave a 19 year old soldier.
From the henleystandard.co.uk
More terrible even than the loss of his corporeality is the disappearance of the unique configuration of consciousness that accumulated in his mind over nearly 80 years of bearing witness.
From the ocregister.com
Those big color pictures are rendered with chiaroscuro light effects that enhance the drama and corporeality of the athletes, who are at once pimply and idealized.
From the washingtonpost.com
The sexually loaded, penetrating gaze was part of his weaponry, but his art addressed the lives of individuals, whether life models or royalty, with delicacy and disturbing corporeality.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Materiality: the quality of being physical; consisting of matter
  • (corporeal) having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
  • (corporeal) bodily: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
  • (Corporeal (Altar Linen)) The Corporal (from the Latin corpus, "body") is a square white linen cloth, now usually somewhat smaller than the breadth of an altar, upon which the chalice and paten, and also the ciborium containing the smaller hosts for the Communion of the laity, are placed during ...
  • (Corporeal (band)) Corporeal is an American band formed by Dave VerLee, Robb Leu, and Bryan Rolfsen in 2002. They become a small Internet phenomenon when video of their rendition of the Halo theme gained an online following. ...
  • The state of being corporeal; Something having a corporeal existence
  • (Corporeal) Physical; perceptible by the senses. Automobiles, grain, fruit, and horses are corporeal intangibles and are called chattels.
  • (corporeal) (109) physical; bodily; not spiritual.
  • A term that recognizes that bodily images are not just the result of biological differences but are socially constructed through various signs and systems of meaning. Contrast with essentialism.