discarnate
Lacking physical form
Discarnate means without a physical body—existing as pure spirit or consciousness.
The term appears in discussions of ghosts, souls, and the afterlife: discarnate entities, discarnate beings.
It's the opposite of incarnate, describing something that has shed or never possessed bodily form: The medium claimed to channel discarnate spirits.
Visible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
- ghostApparition of the dead
shade · phantasm · revenant · poltergeist · banshee · spook · ectoplasm · haunting
Lacking physical form; unimportant
- nonphysicalNot of matter
- intangibleNot physically present
- bodilessLacking a physical form
- unbodiedLacking a physical form
insubstantial · impalpable · formless · fleshless · unembodied · bodyless · dematerialized · metaphysical
apparition
Visible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
ghost · shade · phantasm · revenant · poltergeist · banshee · spook · ectoplasm · haunting · manifestation
immaterial
Lacking physical form; unimportant
- nonphysicalNot of matter
- intangibleNot physically present
- bodilessLacking a physical form
unbodied · insubstantial · impalpable · formless · fleshless · unembodied · bodyless · dematerialized · metaphysical · abstract
soul
Innermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
astral · ethereal · celestial · divine · karma · nirvana · moksha · samsara · ascension · enlightenment
- seancesseance, medium, mediums, channeling, planchette
carnivorous, carnal, incarnate, incarnation, carnation, reincarnation, carnality, reincarnate