PHYSICALNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physicalness mean? 

• PHYSICALNESS (noun)
  The noun PHYSICALNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being physical; consisting of matter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICALNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being physical; consisting of matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness

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

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

Attribute:

material (derived from or composed of matter)

immaterial; nonmaterial (not consisting of matter)

corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)

immaterial; incorporeal (without material form or substance)

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

concreteness (the quality of being concrete (not abstract))

palpability; tangibility; tangibleness (the quality of being perceivable by touch)

solidness; substantiality; substantialness (the quality of being substantial or having substance)

reality (the quality possessed by something that is real)

Derivation:

physical (having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses)

physical (concerned with material things)

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