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Definitions for incorporeal
ˌɪn kɔrˈpɔr i əl, -ˈpoʊr-in·cor·po·re·al

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incorporeal, immaterialadjective

    without material form or substance

    "an incorporeal spirit"

Wiktionary

  1. incorporealadjective

    Having no material form or physical substance.

  2. incorporealadjective

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Incorporealadjective

    Immaterial; unbodied.

    Etymology: incorporalis, Lat. incorporel, Fr. in and corporeal.

    It is a virtue which may be called incorporeal and immateriate, whereof there be in nature but few. Francis Bacon.

    Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

Wikipedia

  1. incorporeal

    Incorporeality is "the state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism." Incorporeal (Greek: ἀσώματος) means "Not composed of matter; having no material existence." Incorporeality is a quality of souls, spirits, and God in many religions, including the currently major denominations and schools of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. In ancient philosophy, any attenuated "thin" matter such as air, aether, fire or light was considered incorporeal. The ancient Greeks believed air, as opposed to solid earth, to be incorporeal, in so far as it is less resistant to movement; and the ancient Persians believed fire to be incorporeal in that every soul was said to be produced from it. In modern philosophy, a distinction between the incorporeal and immaterial is not necessarily maintained: a body is described as incorporeal if it is not made out of matter. In the problem of universals, universals are separable from any particular embodiment in one sense, while in another, they seem inherent nonetheless. Aristotle offered a hylomorphic account of abstraction in contrast to Plato's world of Forms. Aristotle used the Greek terms soma (body) and hyle (matter, literally "wood"). The notion that a causally effective incorporeal body is even coherent requires the belief that something can affect what's material, without physically existing at the point of effect. A ball can directly affect another ball by coming in direct contact with it, and is visible because it reflects the light that directly reaches it. An incorporeal field of influence, or immaterial body could not perform these functions because they have no physical construction with which to perform these functions. Following Newton, it became customary to accept action at a distance as brute fact, and to overlook the philosophical problems involved in so doing.

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  1. incorporeal

    Incorporeal refers to something that lacks a physical, material existence or form. It often describes things that are non-physical, intangible, spiritual, or metaphysical in nature.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Incorporealadjective

    not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial

  2. Incorporealadjective

    existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of incorporeal in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of incorporeal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of incorporeal in a Sentence

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven:

    Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

  2. Ludwig van Beethoven:

    Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

  3. Ileana Adriana Stan:

    A real spy is an ethical believer in an incorporeal and ethical Deity.

  4. Ileana Adriana Stan:

    The New World Order was made for the ethical believers in an incorporeal, single and perfectly ethical Deity.

  5. Ludwig van Beethoven:

    Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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