corporealism
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
corporealism (countable and uncountable, plural corporealisms)
- (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
- (sociology) The use of physical attributes as a criterion or value (royal blood, race, multiracialism, inability, physical abilities).
Synonyms edit
- antimentalism, antimentalism
- non-mentalism, nonmentalism
Antonyms edit
References edit
“corporealism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.