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corporealism

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English

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Etymology

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From corporeal +‎ -ism.

Noun

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corporealism (countable and uncountable, plural corporealisms)

  1. (philosophy, dated) Materialism.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      That the Democritic philosophy, which is made up of these two principles, Corporealism and Atomism complicated together, is essentially Atheistical
  2. (sociology) The use of physical attributes as a criterion or value (royal blood, race, multiracialism, inability, physical abilities).
  3. (theology) The belief that God has a physical body, as opposed to being immaterial.

Synonyms

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  • antimentalism, antimentalism
  • non-mentalism, nonmentalism

Antonyms

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References

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corporealism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.