mortal body
Temporary physical vessel
The mortal body is the physical human form subject to death, as opposed to an immortal soul or spirit.
The phrase appears in religious and philosophical contexts distinguishing what perishes from what endures: The mortal body returns to dust, but the soul lives on.
It emphasizes human vulnerability and finite existence.
- fleshSoft body matter
- flesh and bloodOne's close relatives
- boneHard skeletal tissue
- bag of bonesExtremely thin person
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
skin · decay · death · finite · borrowed time · temporal · fragile · vulnerable · perishable · earthly · corporeal · physical · human · dust · dust to dust · ashes · breath · heartbeat
- corporeal formflesh, human form
- theological anthropologyimage of God, divine image, divine likeness, likeness, fall of man
- biblical bodyflesh, blood, bone, bones, hand
- dualismDescartes, interactionism, ghost in the machine, property dualism, mind
- incarnationsmanifestation, avatar, incarnation, human form, physical form
materiality and substance
mortal bodysoul
Innermost animating essence
spirit · immortal soul · ethereal being · astral body · spiritual essence
mortal, body, mortality, mortally, immortal, immortality, mortician, mortify, mortification