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Incorporeal vs Impalpable - What's the difference?

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Incorporeal is a related term of impalpable.


As adjectives the difference between incorporeal and impalpable

is that incorporeal is having no material form or physical substance while impalpable is not able to be perceived by the senses (especially by touch); intangible or insubstantial.

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

    impalpable

    English

    Adjective

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