intangibly
- adverb
- /ɪnˈtændʒəblɪ/
- The artist captures emotions intangibly, expressing feelings that words cannot describe.
Examples
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He understands intangibly how much his support means to her.
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- Congealed labor is the amount of labor intangibly present in a commodity, which in the market is roughly expressed as exchange value or price.
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Just so, obscurely, intangibly, so many of their stories have begun and ended, her body gloving itself as did her hands.
Fiction book (1998) -
Light-based images, meanwhile, are associated with technologies like film, television, and video, whose images are disclosed intangibly through emissions of radiant light.
Academic text (2012) -
Help the Dean amass the resources needed to support and celebrate these teachers and their students: tangibly, out of your own pocket, and intangibly, with political support and advocacy among your peers and colleagues.
Blog text (19) -
Spanning both camps is photography, a technology whose images may be propagated tangibly, in the form of pigment-based prints, or intangibly, in the form of luminous projections.
Academic text (2012) -
Love can be intangibly powerful, affecting people's lives in subtle yet profound ways.
Synonyms
So slight that you do not notice it
In a way you cannot clearly describe
It happens so slightly that you cannot feel or notice it
Not physical, like a ghost or spirit
Antonyms
How Tangible
Surface Forms
Morphology
intangibly = intangible (semi-transparent) = in + tang + ible + ly
The adverb is a regular manner formation from the adjective 'intangible'.
Etymology
The word intangibly comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and tangere 'to touch', the same root behind the English word tangible, which means 'able to be touched'. So to do something intangibly is to do it in a way that cannot be touched or easily measured.