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Heady vs Unembodied - What's the difference?

heady | unembodied |

As adjectives the difference between heady and unembodied

is that heady is intoxicating or stupefying while unembodied is incorporeal; not possessed of a body.

heady

English

Adjective

(er)
  • intoxicating or stupefying
  • * The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
  • tending to upset the mind or senses
  • * We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
  • exhilarating
  • * The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
  • intellectual
  • * Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
  • rash or impetuous
  • * He made too heady promises, and when it came time, he was never able to fulfill them.

    • Derived terms

    * headily * headiness

    Anagrams

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    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