unembodied
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- unimbodied (obsolete) [18th Century]
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ənĕmbŏʹdĭd, IPA(key): /ənɛmˈbɒdɪd/
Adjective edit
unembodied (not comparable)
- (of a soul, spirit, or other such essence so conceived) Incorporeal; not possessed of a body.
- 1979 April 28, John Graczak, “The Sacred and the Profane”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
- Elaborate rituals designed to separate the realm of the Holy, the realm of the unembodied Sky-Father, and much messier World, where people do inconvenient things like have babies and copulate.
- (of principles, ideas, theories, or the like)
- Not expressed or exhibited in material or concrete form; wholly abstract.
- Not incorporated into a coherent system; conceptually disconnected.
- (especially of armed multitudes) Not united in a regimented structure; lacking structure and order.
- Existing or operating without involvement by the body; solely mental or intellectual; “ungrounded”, “heady”.
References edit
- “unemˈbodied, ppl. a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]