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INCORPOREALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incorporeality mean? 

INCORPOREALITY (noun)
  The noun INCORPOREALITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matterplay

  Familiarity information: INCORPOREALITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INCORPOREALITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

immateriality; incorporeality

Hypernyms ("incorporeality" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incorporeality"):

impalpability; intangibility; intangibleness (the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch)

insubstantiality (lacking substance or reality)

abstractness (the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object)

unreality (the quality possessed by something that is unreal)

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

incorporeal (without material form or substance)


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