as in spiritual
not composed of matter
ghosts are supposed to be bodiless
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Recent Examples of bodiless
As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.
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Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
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
Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bodiless
Adjective
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With the moon transiting whimsical Pisces, the boundaries between the physical and spiritual blur, adding an imaginative and almost cinematic layer to the festivities.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Here, spiritual infractions are met with savage physical punishment and some of the more grotesque images in recent horror memory (which, as the genre has become ever more popular and emboldened, is seriously saying something).—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Adjective
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Her poetry carries it all—the metaphysical, the flirtatious, the unsettling, the provocative— all in such miniscule space.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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Yoga and sound baths set the tone, but the property also offers a roster of metaphysical experiences for those curious for something more.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The correlation seemed to suggest that space was alive with invisible forces that bound together the variable environments of the Sun and Earth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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To make sense out of this tangle of connections and contingencies, many macroscopes employ computational models to reveal the key economic, medical, political, educational, or ecological relationships that are often invisible to all but the experts.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The move signals ambitions beyond the CEO romances and supernatural love triangles that have dominated the space.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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Valak first appears in The Conjuring 2, when the Warrens are in England, investigating the Enfield poltergeist — the case of a young girl allegedly experiencing a supernatural force taking over her body.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But Safdie’s script is at times formless and somewhat baggy.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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Just ask Happy Gilmore 2, a formless, two-hour blob of Adam Sandler’s family and celebrity friends, with no real creative drive to speak of.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Bodiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bodiless. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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