intangible
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7.2
- adjective
- /ɪnˈtæn.dʒə.bəl/
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intangible
- Except I would argue that because a lot of the value they create is intangible, customer facing staff are underpaid and undervalued.
- intangible benefits
- intangible costs
- intangible resources
And everything else seems kind of intangible and unsatisfying.
- And everything else seems kind of intangible and unsatisfying.
- How should that stuff, how should those goods, some tangible, some intangible, be distributed?
- I just don't find any pleasure in doing, buying something that's intangible.
- He for him, that trip was more than worth it just for these intangible reasons.
- And having the reaction in there is to try to portray some of those intangible pieces that are just tougher to write down.
- And so I knew that like if John just got a glimpse of that kind of culture that we've created that team, there's an intangible value to that culture.
- I think love is spoken about in a very wishy washy, woo woo, kooky, ethereal, intangible way.
- Except I would argue that because a lot of the value they create is intangible, customer facing staff are underpaid and undervalued.
- So there's this intangible, you know, legacy, quote UN quote, that every one of us has through the people we touch.
Examples
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Still others, such as cultural values, provide intangible experiences that are not captured well in current valuation approaches.
Academic text (2012) -
In the world of the street-oriented, respect becomes a form of currency, an intangible form of social wealth.
Academic text (2013) -
It's all the intangible things that just make you, you.
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I think it was more of an intangible quality.
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You have this intangible quality.
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Leadership is, uh, intangible... and it's hard to measure, difficult to describe.
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You're able to treat these intangible things as being effectively present and real.
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Less well known are the inevitable and often intangible relations of power and prestige.
Fiction book (1998) -
Storytelling and storytelling makes those intangible things feel tangible and people join the story.
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The love and support of friends can be an intangible source of strength during tough times.
Synonyms
4
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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7.0
Not having a body you can touch or see
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7.7
Has no physical form and is about ideas or feelings
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9.3
Hard to feel or notice with your senses
About the mind or spirit rather than the body
Antonyms
Compounds
How Tangible
Surface Forms
Morphology
intangible = tangible (semi-transparent) = in + tang + ible
The adjective is a straightforward negation of 'tangible', so a learner who knows 'tangible' can readily infer 'not tangible'.
Etymology
Intangible is made from the prefix in- meaning 'not' and a part that means 'to touch', the same idea you see in tangible and the common word touch. So intangible means 'not touchable' and is used for things you cannot touch or easily measure, like a feeling or a brand's value.