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intangibly

intangibly

8.5
In a way you cannot touch or easily explain
  • adverb
  • /ɪnˈtændʒəblɪ/
translation icon : intangiblemente
  • The artist captures emotions intangibly, expressing feelings that words cannot describe.

Examples

  • He understands intangibly how much his support means to her.

  • - Congealed labor is the amount of labor intangibly present in a commodity, which in the market is roughly expressed as exchange value or price.

  • 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

imperceptibly
vsintangibly
7 7.5

So slight that you do not notice it

describes absence of touch or clear definition rather than mere small change
indefinably
vsintangibly
7.5

In a way you cannot clearly describe

is harder to define because it also lacks physical contact or measurable quality
impalpably
vsintangibly
9.9

It happens so slightly that you cannot feel or notice it

also lacks definability or measurable qualities, not just lack of touch
immaterially
vsintangibly
  • Specialized
9.3

Not physical, like a ghost or spirit

implies lacking touch while also being hard to measure or define

Antonyms

2 4.9

In a way you can feel or clearly see

How Tangible

tangibly
2 4.9
palpably
3 5.2
intangibly
8.5

Surface Forms

intangibly positive

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.