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Impalpable vs Disembodied - What's the difference?

impalpable | disembodied | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between impalpable and disembodied

is that impalpable is not able to be perceived by the senses (especially by touch); intangible or insubstantial while disembodied is having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.

As a verb disembodied is

past tense of disembody.

impalpable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not able to be perceived by the senses (especially by touch); intangible or insubstantial

    • disembodied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disembody)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter 8 , passage=You'd have thought that this Wickham would have learned at her mother's knee that the last thing a fellow in a highly nervous condition wants, when he's searching someone's room, is a disembodied voice in his immediate ear asking him how he's getting on. The upshot, I need scarcely say, was that I came down like a sack of coals.}}

    Derived terms

    * disembodiedly * disembodiedness