intangibility

Examples

• All

• My intangibility.

  Blog text (26)

• It's an epic meditation on intangibility.

  American Psycho (2000)

• In this age of computer and internet intangibility, it's hard sometimes to draw the line.

  Blog text (33)

• The intangibility of the past is terrifying.

  Delirium (2013)

• Of course, the intangibility of most legal services contributes to the perception that their value is illusory.

  Academic text (1995)

• "Spirit's insubstantial," I said. "He doesn't hold with intangibility."

  Fiction book (1995)

• The "intangibility" of what follows evolves from "naturalistic observation," which can be considered the "tangible" aspect of the times.

  Academic text (2005)

• Clearer thinking about the intangibility of verbal works, however, leads in the other direction, toward a recognition of the unique artifactual value of every one of the objects that we call books—not only every manuscript book but every "copy" of every printed edition.

  Academic text (1992)

• To avoid etymological and common usage criteria of reciprocity, we substitute influence, a more general term that encompasses one-way cause and effect phenomena, although that word too is laden with semantic problems, such as the sense of intangibility.

  Academic text (2001)

• The intangibility of love makes it difficult to measure how much we truly care for others.

Synonyms

I

immateriality

vsintangibility

• Specialized

1 9.6

Not having a physical body or any substance

stresses inability to be touched rather than absence of matter

I

intangibleness

vsintangibility

9.5

A state of not being able to be touched or measured

is identical in meaning but is the alternative word form

I

incorporeality

vsintangibility

9.9

A state of having no physical body or shape

focuses on inability to be touched rather than bodily absence

I

incorporeity

vsintangibility

• Specialized

9.9

Not having a physical body or material form

emphasizes untouchability rather than simply lacking a body

I

impalpability

vsintangibility

9.9

You cannot feel it by touch, like a light mist

covers general untouchability rather than only the sense of touch

I

insubstantiality

vsintangibility

9.2

A lack of being real, strong, or convincing

focuses on physical untouchability rather than weakness or unreality

Antonyms

T

tangibility

1 6.1

How easily something can be touched

How Tangible

tangibility

1 6.1

concreteness

1 5.0

intangibility

1 8.3

ethereality

• Literature

9.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology