Incorporeality

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or characteristic of being incorporeal. uncountable, usually

    "The tax payer does not know, and has no means of knowing, who the particular individuals are who compose "the government." To him "the government" is a myth, an abstraction, an incorporeality, with which he can make no contract, and to which he can give no consent, and make no pledge."

  2. 2
    the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter wordnet

Synonyms

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immaterialityincorporeityairinessairy nothingbodilessnessdisembodiedness

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"Arthur C. Clarke envisioned radical stages in the evolution of a civilized species, from biological, to machine postbiological, and finally, to incorporeality."

Etymology

From incorporeal + -ity.

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