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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 matter
Familiarity information: INCORPOREALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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