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Recent Examples of incorporeal In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own. Literary Hub, 26 June 2025 To the casual observer, the data industry can seem incorporeal, its products conjured out of weightless bits. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2024 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 If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God. Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024 The digital files are incorporeal. BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021 The network is incorporeal. J.m. Ledgard, Wired, 12 May 2021 After all, if someone can live without a brain, this would seem to open the door to belief in an incorporeal soul. Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020 Their physical bodies — and your own — get entangled with those pictorial references to bodily experience, bringing a ghostly, incorporeal picture home. Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incorporeal
Adjective
  • Because of the revolts, Compton says, drumming and African spiritual practices were eventually criminalized in the colonies.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025
  • This is perhaps the best day of the year to think about your spiritual values or the basic things that guide you.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The surrounding wave paintings add emotional turbulence, invoking both the physical might and metaphysical vastness of the sea.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This is perhaps best illustrated through the comedy woven throughout the film’s supernatural narrative.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The taking of ritualistic body-part trophies may have also been part of a supernatural practice, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Lately, that’s meant removing invisible things: stress, overstimulation, allergens, even the pressure to remember one more thing.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • As the illuminated side of the moon faces away from Earth, new moons are invisible to observers on the ground unless the moon passes directly in front of the sun — an eclipse.
    Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether this has anything to do with eventually arriving at AGI and ASI is somewhat immaterial.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • For me, this was where everything was tipping: the point at which the material brain created immaterial thoughts and images, and the same point reversed, when the computer turned abstract numbers into concrete actions.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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

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“Incorporeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incorporeal. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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