bodiless.

1. Having no physical body.

2. Seeming to come from no visible person or physical source.

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Words that belong together

• bodiless spirit
• bodiless presence

On the page

The narrator describes a bodiless presence without explaining what it is.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character. Commonness: moderately common.