corporeal.

Having or relating to a physical body rather than a purely mental or spiritual existence.

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Words that belong together

• corporeal form
• corporeal presence

On the page

The apparition acquired a corporeal form at the doorway.

His corporeal presence seemed less convincing than the voice on the recording.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a physical or temporal relation; comparison requires an appropriate figurative or measured context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.