fleshliness

Definitions

The quality or state of being physical, corporeal, or material.

A preoccupation with or indulgence in sensual or carnal appetites.

Examples

The novel explores the tension between spiritual aspirations and the inescapable fleshliness of human existence.

His poetry often dwells on the raw fleshliness of the body, celebrating its vulnerabilities and physical sensations.

Synonyms

sensuality carnality corporeality lustfulness physicality worldliness

Antonyms

spirituality asceticism purity celibacy immateriality abstinence