Unembodied vs Disembodied - What's the difference?
unembodied | disembodied |
Incorporeal; not possessed of a body.
# Not expressed or exhibited in material or concrete form; wholly abstract.
# Not incorporated into a coherent system; conceptually disconnected.
(especially of armed multitudes) Not united in a regimented structure; lacking structure and order.
Existing]] or [[operate, operating without involvement by the body; solely mental or intellectual; “ungrounded”, “heady”.
(disembody)
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.}}
As adjectives the difference between unembodied and disembodied
is that unembodied is incorporeal; not possessed of a body while disembodied is having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.As a verb disembodied is
(disembody).unembodied
English
Alternative forms
* unimbodied (obsolete)Adjective
(-)References
* “unem?bodied, ppl. a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989