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    PHYSICALNESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The quality of being physical; consisting of matterplay

    Synonyms:

    corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    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)

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