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Tantalizing vs Intangible - What's the difference?

tantalizing | intangible |

As adjectives the difference between tantalizing and intangible

is that tantalizing is teasing; tempting, but beyond reach while intangible is incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.

As a verb tantalizing

is .

As a noun intangible is

anything intangible.

tantalizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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