What does incorporeal mean?
Definitions for incorporeal
ˌɪn kɔrˈpɔr i əl, -ˈpoʊr-in·cor·po·re·al
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Princeton's WordNet
incorporeal, immaterialadjective
without material form or substance
"an incorporeal spirit"
Wiktionary
incorporealadjective
Having no material form or physical substance.
incorporealadjective
Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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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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
Incorporealadjective
not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial
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
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of incorporeal in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of incorporeal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of incorporeal in a Sentence
Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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.
A real spy is an ethical believer in an incorporeal and ethical Deity.
The New World Order was made for the ethical believers in an incorporeal, single and perfectly ethical Deity.
Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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