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Incorporeal vs Insubstantial - What's the difference?

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Incorporeal is a related term of insubstantial.


As adjectives the difference between incorporeal and insubstantial

is that incorporeal is having no material form or physical substance while insubstantial is lacking substance; not real or strong.

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

    insubstantial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking substance; not real or strong.
    • The bridge was insubstantial and would not safely carry a car.

    Synonyms

    * unsubstantial (archaic)

    Antonyms

    * substantial