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Intangible vs Disembodied - What's the difference?

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Intangible is a related term of disembodied.


As adjectives the difference between intangible and disembodied

is that intangible is incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal while disembodied is having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.

As a noun intangible

is anything intangible.

As a verb disembodied is

(disembody).

intangible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal

    • Antonyms

    * tangible

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything intangible
  • (legal) Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes

    • 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