MEANING
Lacking a physical body or material substance.
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A pursuer that cannot be physically held; an agency without a body; the failure of ordinary barriersMake the absence of a body consequential rather than just labeling a figure ghostly.
Words that belong together
- incorporeal being
- incorporeal presence
- incorporeal voice
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The incorporeal visitor left no weight on the mattress.
An incorporeal being passed through the locked partition.
She could hear the incorporeal presence but could find no place from which it spoke.
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- incorporeal
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Primary category: horror. Formal; intangible does not always mean incorporeal, since a physical thing may merely be inaccessible. In supernatural fiction, bodily absence is a rule to establish. Adjective; normally non-gradable; use the base form rather than mechanical -er/-est forms. Derived/related family (not inflections): incorporeality (noun).
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