incorporeal

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ corporeal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

Adjective

incorporeal (comparative more incorporeal, superlative most incorporeal)

1. Having no material form or physical substance.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.

   • 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:

     Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.

2. (law) Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.

Synonyms

• (having no material form): disembodied; intangible; uncorporeal

Antonyms

• corporeal

Derived terms

• incorporeality
• incorporeally

 

Translations

having no material form or physical substance

• Bulgarian: нематериален (bg) (nematerialen)
• Catalan: incorpori (ca)
• French: incorporel (fr)
• Galician: incorpóreo
• Greek: ασώματος (el) (asómatos), άυλος (el) (áylos)

  Ancient: ἀσώματος (asṓmatos)

• Italian: incorporeo (it)
• Japanese: 無形 (ja) (mukei)
• Old English: unlīchamlīċ
• Persian: مجرد (fa) (mojarrad)
• Portuguese: incorpóreo
• Russian: невещественный (ru) (neveščestvennyj)
• Spanish: incorpóreo (es)
• Volapük: nenstöfik

Anagrams

• pericoronal