noncorporeal

Examples

• All

• Thus, the thrilling yet uncanny creation of noncorporeal voices, occurring via the mnemonic devices of impersonal little poems and recording technology, again engenders forgetful recollection.

  Academic text (2017)

• I had no need of atmosphere and was, by human definition, noncorporeal.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Vanishing Point: A teleporter incident causes Hoshi to turn invisible and noncorporeal.

  Blog text (10)

• The mind, it turns out, is not the elusive, fuzzy, noncorporeal, and transcendent entity imagined for thousands of years but, rather, a pure property of brain activity.

  Academic text (1997)

• Consequently, the early oral quest to partake in the totality of the good-mother-like Holy Presence is more of a longing to merge with the noncorporeal grace of nonbeing.

  Academic text (1990)

• Ghosts are often depicted as noncorporeal entities lacking a physical form.

• Many believe that after death, the soul becomes a noncorporeal being, existing beyond the physical realm.

Synonyms

I

immaterial

vsnoncorporeal

4 7.4

Not physical and cannot be touched

focuses on lack of a physical body or visible form rather than matter makeup

I

incorporeal

vsnoncorporeal

2 9.9

Not having a physical body or shape that you can touch

is the identical sense expressed by another lexical form

N

nonphysical

vsnoncorporeal

1 7.0

Not having a body you can touch or see

is the same idea but more about being beyond physical measurement

N

nonmaterial

vsnoncorporeal

1 7.7

Has no physical form and is about ideas or feelings

is used for lack of a physical body or form rather than matter composition

U

unbodied

vsnoncorporeal

• Archaic

9.9

Not having a physical form like a ghost or spirit

is the same concept often presented with different wording

U

unembodied

vsnoncorporeal

9.9

Not having a physical body, like a ghost

is the same idea but stated as absence of bodily existence rather than form

D

discorporate

vsnoncorporeal

• Literature

9.9

A being that has no physical body like a ghost

is the same absence of body but not specifically about incarnation status

U

unphysical

vsnoncorporeal

9.1

About the mind or spirit rather than the body

is narrower, stressing lack of a physical body or material form

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