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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
Italo Calvino

Meaning of "incorporeal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INCORPOREAL

incorporeal  [ˌɪnkɔːˈpɔːrɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCORPOREAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incorporeal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INCORPOREAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

incorporeal

Incorporeality

Incorporeal or uncarnate means without a physical body, presence or form. It is often used in reference to souls, spirits, the Christian God or the Divine. In ancient philosophy, any attenuated "thin" matter such as air, ether, fire or light was considered incorporeal. The ancient Greeks believed air, as opposed to solid earth, to be incorporeal, in so far as it is less resistant to movement; and the ancient Persians believed fire to be incorporeal in that every soul was said to be produced from it. In modern philosophy, a distinction between the incorporeal and immaterial is not necessarily maintained: a body is described as incorporeal if it is not made out of matter. In the problem of universals, universals are separable from any particular embodiment in one sense, while in another, they seem inherent nonetheless. Aristotle offered a hylomorphic account of abstraction in contrast to Plato's world of Forms. Aristotle used the Greek terms soma and hyle. Whereas modern readers often take "incorporeal" to be equivalent to "nonmaterial," this is not Aristotle's view.

Definition of incorporeal in the English dictionary

The first definition of incorporeal in the dictionary is without material form, body, or substance. Other definition of incorporeal is spiritual or metaphysical. Incorporeal is also having no material existence but existing by reason of its annexation of something material, such as an easement, touchline, copyright, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCORPOREAL


advertorial
ˌædvɜːˈtɔːrɪəl
ambassadorial
æmˌbæsəˈdɔːrɪəl
archesporial
ˌɑːkɪˈspɔːrɪəl
boreal
ˈbɔːrɪəl
combinatorial
ˌkɒmbɪnəˈtɔːrɪəl
corporeal
kɔːˈpɔːrɪəl
editorial
ˌɛdɪˈtɔːrɪəl
equatorial
ˌɛkwəˈtɔːrɪəl
extracorporeal
ˌɛkstrəkɔːˈpɔːrɪəl
factorial
fækˈtɔːrɪəl
gubernatorial
ˌɡjuːbənəˈtɔːrɪəl
janitorial
ˌdʒænɪˈtɔːrɪəl
loreal
ˈlɔːrɪəl
memorial
mɪˈmɔːrɪəl
pictorial
pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl
sectorial
sɛkˈtɔːrɪəl
sensorial
senˈsɔːrɪəl
territorial
ˌtɛrɪˈtɔːrɪəl
tutorial
tjuːˈtɔːrɪəl
vectorial
vɛkˈtɔːrɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCORPOREAL

incorporable
incorporal
incorporall
incorporate
incorporated
incorporated company
incorporatedness
incorporating
incorporation
incorporative
incorporator
incorporeality
incorporeally
incorporeity
incorpse
incorrect
incorrectly
incorrectness
incorrigibility
incorrigible

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCORPOREAL

arboreal
areal
breakfast cereal
cereal
choreal
ethereal
for real
irreal
marmoreal
Montreal
real
semiarboreal
subarboreal
surreal
terpsichoreal
the real
the surreal
unreal
ureal
venereal

Synonyms and antonyms of incorporeal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «incorporeal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCORPOREAL

Find out the translation of incorporeal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of incorporeal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incorporeal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无形
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incorpóreo
570 millions of speakers

English

incorporeal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निराकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مادية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бестелесный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incorpóreo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিরবয়ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incorporel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak bermaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

körperlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無形の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무형
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Incorporeal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô hình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடல் வடிவம் இல்லாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अमूर्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

manevi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incorporeo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezcielesny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безтілесний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

necorporale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασώματο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onliggaamlike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

incorporeal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

incorporeal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incorporeal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCORPOREAL»

The term «incorporeal» is regularly used and occupies the 60.269 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incorporeal

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2 QUOTES WITH «INCORPOREAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word incorporeal.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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Italo Calvino
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCORPOREAL»

Discover the use of incorporeal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incorporeal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory and ...
coordinate one another – states of affairs; the other is an effect of the former and can be said to inhere in states of affairs – incorporeal entities.34 Drawing inspiration from the Stoics, Deleuze clarifies that incorporeal entities are not ' physical ...
Adrian Parr, 2008
2
Fresh Perspectives: Commercial Law 2
You should remember from earlier in this chapter that incorporeal property, such as shares in a company or a right of lease,tcannot be seen or touched. Incorporeal property has no 'chapter 14 of Commercial physical existence. But you can ...
Avinash Govindjee, Dave Holness, Avinash Govindjee, 2007
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The Deleuze Dictionary
130 INCORPOREAL is independent of the other and cannot therefore be said to enter into a relation of transcendence. Connectives Nietzsche Spinoza Virtual/ Virtuality INCORPOREAL Tamsin Lorraine In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze ...
Adrian Parr, 2010
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Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
Far from regaining a concreteness, to think the body in movement thus means accepting the paradox that there is an incorporeal dimension of the body. Of it, but not it. Real, material, but incorporeal. Inseparable, coincident, but disjunct.
Brian Massumi, 2002
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order
INCORPOREAL. INCREASE. may annoy; the impertinent freedom, or the rude insults of ill-disposed persons, ma; molest. I have often been tempted to inquire what happiness is to be gained, or what inconvenience to be avoided, by this stated ...
George Crabb, 1826
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The Law of Landlord and Tenant: To which is Added, an ...
Incorporeal hereditaments are principally these, viz. advowstJns, tithes, tolls, estovers, commons, ways, offices, franchises, corrodies or pensions, annuities, and rents (e). Incorporeal hereditaments are generally speaking capable of being  ...
William Woodfall, 1816
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Summa Theologiae: Volume 9, Angels: 1a. 50-64
There are five points of inquiry with regard to the angelic substance in itself: 1. is there any entirely spiritual and incorporeal creature? 2. granted such a thing as an angel exists, is it composed of matter and form?3 3. are there many such ...
Thomas Aquinas, Kenelm Foster, 2006
8
Deleuze and the Contemporary World
As a result, it implies a number of further theses, firstly about the relationship between incorporeal events and language, and secondly about the relationship between incorporeal events and physical configurations of bodies. I begin with the ...
Ian Buchanan, Adrian Parr, 2006
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Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction
Crucially for ourpurposeshere,it also suggests the possibility ofa purely spiritual, incorporeal existence, the kind of existence that God has. So whereas non- human animals might be held to be completely corporeal, and human beings a fusion ...
Beverley Clack, Brian R. Clack, 2008
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Choreographing Relations: Practical Philosophy and ...
Let's say that the philosophy of the event would have to advance in the at-first- sight paradoxical direction of a materialism of the incorporeal."320 According to Foucault, the incorporeal designates the event and not, as one might suppose, the ...
Petra Sabisch, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCORPOREAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incorporeal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ireland's new postcode system puts Shannon Airport in a whole …
Checked my #eircode and apparently I'm either homeless, a figment of my own imagination or an incorporeal being in an alternate dimension. «IrishCentral, Jul 15»
2
Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read four …
“New Romancer” takes things further than “Her.” Lord Byron is no all-seeing incorporeal dream. Lord Byron becomes a flesh-and-blood man, ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
3
Written by John Watters
He talks of “loafers in his parlor,” and “skunks in his bedroom,” striking wildly and exhaustively at the incorporeal creations of his phrenzy! «Barnstable Patriot, Jul 15»
4
Not Some Incorporeal Heaven
Contrary to what I had been taught as a child, the highest state of being is not some incorporeal heaven, but having the fullest capacity of our ... «The Costa Rican Times, Jul 15»
5
Banking Inquiry: By June, vulnerabilities in the sector came into …
An incorporeal cabinet meeting took place. I left the building around 3.30am. Liquidity concerns continued to mount over the course of ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
6
201 Days of The X-Files is Now Underway
Fox handed down a hype trailer that is light to the point of incorporeal on material from the upcoming series, but heavy on the good old days. «Chip Chick, Jul 15»
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Path of the Stranger
Becoming, quite literally, an incorporeal ghost rider. What about going, Kill Bill-style, on a roaring rampage of revenge, allowing you to return to ... «NERD TREK, Jul 15»
8
'Sixty Degrees North', by Malachy Tallack
His interest in that incorporeal circle has roots in Shetland, where the author moved when he was 10 and which he more or less calls home. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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Pembrokeshire village residents win common land battle against …
"Because of its origin and lack of physical substance, it is known as incorporeal hereditaments, which is defined as an 'interest having no ... «South Wales Evening Post, Jul 15»
10
In a word... sex
There where the good boy was a pallid youth of incorporeal being residing in a temple whose sole role was to forever deny itself in pleasuring ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»

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