incorporeal

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=cor=po=re=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

incorporeal, a. [Pref. in- not + corporeal: cf. L. incorporeus. Cf. Incorporal.].

•  Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms
  Reduced their shapes immense."  [1913 Webster]

  "Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us."  [1913 Webster]
•  Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal.  [1913 Webster]

Incorporeal hereditament. See under Hereditament.

Syn. -- Immaterial; unsubstantial; bodiless; spiritual.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incorporeal, adj.
1 not composed of matter.
2 of immaterial beings.
3 Law having no physical existence.

Derivative

incorporeality n. incorporeally adv. incorporeity n.

Etymology

L incorporeus (as INCORPORATE)

THESAURUS

incorporeal

Masan, airy, apparition, appearance, asomatous, astral, astral spirit, banshee, bodiless, control, decarnate, decarnated, departed spirit, discarnate, disembodied, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic, eidolon, ethereal, etheric, extramundane, form, ghost, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum, immaterial, immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal being, incorporeity, insubstantial, intangible, larva, lemures, manes, materialization, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, oni, otherworldly, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, poltergeist, presence, psychic, revenant, shade, shadow, shadowy, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, specterlike, spectral, spectral ghost, spirit, spiritual, spook, sprite, supernatural, theophany, transmundane, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, unworldly, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, weightless, wraith, wraithlike, wraithy, zombie

ROGET THESAURUS

incorporeal

Immateriality

N immateriality, immaterialness, incorporeity, spirituality, inextension, astral plane, personality, I, myself, me, ego, spirit, astral body, immaterialism, spiritualism, spiritualist, immaterial, immateriate, incorporeal, incorporal, incorporate, unfleshly, supersensible, asomatous, unextended, unembodied, disembodied, extramundane, unearthly, pneumatoscopic, spiritual, personal, subjective, nonobjective.