disembodied

adjective

as in bodiless

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Recent Examples of disembodied Love Days gets inside the head of the disembodied, Medusa-like woman who uses her work to escape the perils of her own subjectivity. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 The disembodied emcee voice for the performance only asks that flash not be used, and that any photography or videography not disturb surrounding attendees. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Over the last three centuries, there have been reports of strange music and disembodied voices and footsteps. — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026 The choice to film primarily at night, in darkness, using disembodied voices to tell a story not depicted on camera, further highlights the extent to which these events have been obscured in Israel and around the world. — Drew Paul, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026 Liu’s Met commission, with its disembodied hands, its severing and suturing of the organic and the mechanical, may be a metaphor for a civilization detached from its foundations and coming to its end. — Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026 Wilson is our Virgil, guiding us physically and emotionally via disembodied voiceover. — Lila Allen, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 2026 The disembodied voice of a Genius employee would have told him straightaway that, according to SAOT, the decision was close, but that Haaland was factually onside. — Graham Scott, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 As Wired reported, glitches can happen when workers move too quickly, including disembodied hands obscuring pages. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied
  1. bodiless
  2. incorporeal
  3. invisible
  4. spiritual
  5. formless
  6. nonphysical
  7. intangible
  8. immaterial
Adjective
  • The important things are often bodiless.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
    — Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Definition of bodiless
Adjective
  • Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of incorporeal
Adjective
  • The mostly invisible bits course through blood and pass from mother to child through the placenta and breast milk.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Why invisible warmth is catching on The cultural setup for this trend was already in place.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of invisible
Adjective
  • Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, spiritual leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, is considering becoming a poll chaplain for the first time.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Others hold cultural and spiritual significance, as the condor does for the Yurok Tribe in California.
    — David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of spiritual
Adjective
  • Its formless body accommodated slouching, lounging or lying down, selling freedom from both conventional posture and the bourgeois living room.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Inevitably, much of that knowledge was still undigested and poorly sorted; as a result the planet, viewed from Europe, must have seemed a rather impressionistic and formless place.
    — Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of formless
Adjective
  • In Ayurveda, Prana, the life force carried by the breath, is understood to nourish both the mind and body and can be viewed as a nonphysical substance, finer than oxygen.
    — Trisha Swift, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • In accounting, intangible assets are nonphysical possessions including such things as brands and intellectual property, software, mineral rights ‒ and contracts.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Definition of nonphysical
Adjective
  • That social capital aspect is a crucial part of the business’s intangible capital and adds considerable value to the company.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • This initiative’s impact would be both intangible and tangible.
    — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of intangible
Adjective
  • How Davis, Lee, and others convinced themselves of their cause, although instructive to the working of the human mind, is immaterial to the facts of American history.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026
  • FedEx, meanwhile, doesn’t list Amazon as a key customer in its annual report, suggesting its revenue contribution is immaterial.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of immaterial

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