Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.
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Incorporeal
/ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/
Synonyms for "incorporeal" (115 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Adjective(1 words)
aerialairyapparitionappearanceasomatousastralastral spiritbansheebodilesscontroldecarnatedecarnateddeparted spiritdiscarnatedisembodieddisembodied spiritduppydybbukectoplasmiceidolon
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Adjective(4 words)
Noun(2 words)
immaterial thingimmaterial thing property
Related words (57)
Adjective(6 words)
nonsubstantialoccultoniotherworldlyphantasmphantasmaphantasmalphantasmicphantomphantomicphantomlikepoltergeistpresencepsychicpsychicalrevenantshadeshadowshadowyshape
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shrouded spiritspecterspecterlikespectralspectral ghostspiritspiritualspookspritesupernaturaltheophanytransmundaneunconcreteunearthlyunembodiedunextendedunfleshlyunphysicalunsolidunsubstancedunsubstantialunsubstantialityunworldlyvisionwalking dead manwandering soulweightlesswraithwraithlikewraithyzombie
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5 entriesabstract attributeintangible qualitymetaphysical beingsnonphysical beingsnonphysical property
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6 entriesCollocations
5 entriesincorporeal beingsincorporeal formincorporeal natureincorporeal realmincorporeal substance
Inflections
2 entriesmore incorporealmost incorporeal
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3 entriesAntonyms
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6 entriesSample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Maybe in another universe, sentient beings, as well as their very environment, are incorporeal.
Source: tatoeba (1466046)
The alien is incorporeal, like a ghost.
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The biology on this globe is carbon-based. Some have speculated that there could be silicon-based forms of biology elsewhere in this universe. There yet could be plasma-based biology. There could be incorporeal biology. There could be other probabilities.
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