Disembodiment

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process or state of disembodying. countable, uncountable

    "His way of ignoring people whose presence inconvenienced him actually gave them, if they were sensitive to it, a feeling of invisibility, of nonexistence. Archer, as the three strolled back through the park, was aware of this odd sense of disembodiment; […]"

  2. 2
    A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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idealization

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"His way of ignoring people whose presence inconvenienced him actually gave them, if they were sensitive to it, a feeling of invisibility, of nonexistence. Archer, as the three strolled back through the park, was aware of this odd sense of disembodiment; […]"

Etymology

From disembody + -ment.

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