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Unembodied vs Disembodied - What's the difference?

unembodied | disembodied |

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

(-)
  • 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”.
  • References

    * “ unem?bodied, ppl. a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    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