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Immaterial vs Incorporeal - What's the difference?

immaterial | incorporeal |

As adjectives the difference between immaterial and incorporeal

is that immaterial is having no matter or substance while incorporeal is having no material form or physical substance.

immaterial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no matter or substance.
    • Because ghosts are immaterial , they can pass through walls.
  • Irrelevant.
    • Objection, Your Honour! The defendant's criminal record is immaterial to this case.

    Antonyms

    * material

    incorporeal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no material form or physical substance.
  • * Milton
    • Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.
  • * Bentley
    • Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.
  • (legal) Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.

    • Synonyms

    * (having no material form) disembodied; intangible

    Antonyms

    * corporeal