nonphysical
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7.0
- adjective
- /nɒnˈfɪzɪkəl/
:
no físico
- There seems to be a prima facie difficulty here since traditional notions of spirituality often posit a nonphysical realm categorically separate from the world described by science.
- nonphysical aggression
- nonphysical activities
- nonphysical characteristics
Examples
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Many of the concepts in philosophy are nonphysical and cannot be directly observed or measured.
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There are nonphysical energy sources, and it is these that "make us alive and human" (75).
Academic text (1995) -
You can think of it as maybe this liminal state or in between state, between the physical world and the nonphysical world.
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Although the theories of physics, for instance, are nonphysical, they largely determine the development of technologies.
Academic text (2006) -
Children in this study reported that most of their non-school activities were nonphysical in nature.
Academic text (1992) -
There is no need or room for a controlling, nonphysical entity that could take credit or blame for the outcome.
Academic text (1998) -
To be spiritual meant that one had to inhabit a purely mental, nonphysical, transcendent world.
Academic text (1995) -
Assume an intrinsic meaning emerges despite there being no nonphysical properties (such as the meaning of the message) present.
Blog text (27) -
Nonetheless, such rapport does facilitate effective use of a variety of verbal and nonphysical interventions and other less intrusive crisis prevention and intervention methods.
Academic text (1994) -
The artist focused on creating nonphysical experiences that conveyed emotions through sound and light.
Synonyms
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7.2
Something that cannot be touched and is often a feeling or quality
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7.4
Not physical and cannot be touched
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9.9
Not having a physical body or shape that you can touch
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9.8
Without a physical body or shape
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7.7
Has no physical form and is about ideas or feelings
Not having a physical body, like a ghost
Not having a physical form like a ghost or spirit
A thing that has no physical form and cannot be touched
About the mind or spirit rather than the body
Antonyms
How Physical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonphysical comes from the prefix non- meaning 'not' and the word physical, which is about the body or things you can 'touch' or 'see'. So nonphysical means 'not able to be touched or seen', like ideas, feelings, or ghosts.