bodiless

Examples

• All

• Even the incarnate Son was limited in body, geography, and other factors; the Spirit is bodiless, omnipresent, and essentially limitless.

  Blog text (8)

• Some are very bodily, others bodiless and strange.

  Harvard University

• Or that they looked through me, as though I were bodiless, a spirit.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Of course it stops the senses dead, this being bodiless.

  Fiction book (1994)

• In Western religious thought, however, the Spirit is defined as a bodiless, nonmaterial reality, over and against the physical world, which is not of the same nature as the Spirit.

  Academic text (2000)

• A rippling shadow in a cold draft of wind, a bodiless phantom.

  Fiction book (1997)

• But that lovely voice, being bodiless and seeming to have found out his thoughts, frightened him more than the ravens'.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The asomatos (bodiless) angel, who is fire and spirit, is reified in enamel and gold.

  Academic text (2006)

• Hosea's marriage metaphor, the allegorical reading of the Song of Songs, and the florid elaborations of the medieval kabbalists present the unio mystica of the bodiless and the embodied, God and Israel.

  Academic text (2001)

• The ghostly figure appeared as a bodiless spirit, drifting silently through the room.

Synonyms

D

disembodied

vsbodiless

15 8.0

Seeming to exist without a body, like a voice or spirit

means simply lacking a physical body rather than seeming separated

I

immaterial

vsbodiless

4 7.4

Not physical and cannot be touched

highlights the same lack of material body rather than physical substance

I

incorporeal

vsbodiless

2 9.9

Not having a physical body or shape that you can touch

is the same core idea of having no material body

B

bodyless

vsbodiless

1 8.2

Not having any physical shape you can touch, like a voice or shadow

focuses more on missing a main part than abstract nonphysical being

U

unbodied

vsbodiless

• Archaic

9.9

Not having a physical form like a ghost or spirit

means the same and shows no material body exists

U

unembodied

vsbodiless

9.9

Not having a physical body, like a ghost

expresses the same nonphysical state rather than physical existence

D

discorporate

vsbodiless

• Literature

9.9

A being that has no physical body like a ghost

is a general nonphysical state without implying incarnation status

Antonyms

C

corporeal

• Formal

15 8.4

Relating to the physical body rather than the spirit

M

material

2 3.5

Relating to physical things or possessions, not spiritual

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology