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Corporeal vs Temporal - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between corporeal and temporal

is that corporeal is material; tangible; physical while temporal is of or relating to time.

As a noun temporal is

anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

corporeal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Material; tangible; physical.
    • His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton
  • Of or pertaining to the body; bodily.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2000 , author=Margaret Atwood , title=The Blind Assassin , passage=She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.}}
  • (archaic) Corporal.

    • Synonyms

    * (of the body) bodily, corporal

    Antonyms

    * ethereal * incorporeal * insubstantial * intangible * spiritual

    Derived terms

    * corporeality

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    temporal

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporalis, from .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to time.
  • Of limited time; not perpetual.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
    • The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  • Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:
    • Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
  • Lasting a short time only.
  • Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
    • temporal''' power; '''temporal courts
    Derived terms
    * extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
    • (Dryden)
  • * Lowell
    • He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of the temples of the head
    • Derived terms
    * temporal bone * temporal lobe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skeleton) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
  • Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

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