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Unsubstantial vs Disembodied - What's the difference?

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Unsubstantial is a related term of disembodied.


As adjectives the difference between unsubstantial and disembodied

is that unsubstantial is (archaic) while disembodied is having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.

As a verb disembodied is

(disembody).

unsubstantial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic)
  • 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