as in spiritual
not composed of matter
ghosts are supposed to be bodiless
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Recent Examples of bodiless
The important things are often bodiless.
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Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.
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Udita Jhunjhunwala,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2025
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.
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Lauren Oyler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
10 Apr. 2023
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.
—
Udita Jhunjhunwala,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2025
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.
—
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
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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement cannot sue tech giant Cisco over allegations of aiding the Chinese government’s surveillance and torture of the group.
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The 1970s were thick with New Age spiritual fads and movements, from the benign (crystals) to the unspeakably toxic and cultic (Jonestown).
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Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.
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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.
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In both the real and metaphysical locations of the show, the backgrounds are all painted by hand, something which was pointed out took up a lot of time due to the number of paintings in the show and due to the number of montages.
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In the 18th century Samuel Johnson coined the term metaphysical poets to criticize Donne, John Cleveland, and Abraham Cowley.
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And public health is so invisible.
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There, on May 29, Sojourner Truth delivered a legendary speech that called on attendees to reject the racial and gender biases used to limit her place in society and to defy a status quo that devalued her as a Black woman and treated her as invisible and expendable.
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These thin sheets of lead containing scratches of supernatural desires were used to sway a court case, target a rival, or even a lover, as per Archaeology News.
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In the popular imagination, romantasy is a heterosexual affair, centered on mortal heroines and their supernatural suitors.
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In contrast to the article’s portrait of a formless contest, recent polling portrays a race that is becoming more structured.
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These new formations are much more likely to occur than for things to turn into a formless goop.
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“Bodiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bodiless. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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