Intangible
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Anything intangible.
"Diaghilev's love for Nijinsky was as deep and as sincere and reliant as a bond could be, it being based on all those intangibles of love that cannot be enumerated."
- 2 assets that are saleable though not material or physical wordnet
- 3 Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes.
- 1 Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
- 1 lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen wordnet
- 2 hard to pin down or identify wordnet
- 3 incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch wordnet
- 4 (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value wordnet
Example
More examples"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French intangible, from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tango.
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