unembodied

Lacking physical presence

Unembodied means lacking physical form or not given a body.

Spirits and souls are traditionally conceived as unembodied—existing without material substance.

The word also describes ideas or qualities that haven't been made concrete: The concept remained unembodied, never translated into actual policy.

Opposite of embodied.

immaterial

incorporeal

Not made of matter

formless · bodiless · impalpable · invisible · weightless · massless · shapeless · substanceless · fleshless · unbodied

spiritual

soul

Innermost animating essence

phantom · specter · afterlife · heaven · nirvana · transcendence · enlightenment · reincarnation · astral · otherworldly

philosophical

consciousness

State of sentient awareness

  • mindSeat of consciousness
  • thoughtMental concept or reflection
  • ideaMental formation

concept · abstraction · intellect · cognition · reason · essence · being · existence · metaphysical · ontological

virtual

digital

Of discrete data

  • avatarDigital user representation
  • AISimulated cognitive processing
  • simulationImitation of real processes

hologram · cyberspace · online · uploaded · synthetic · algorithmic · bot · virtual reality · augmented · data

Opposites
physical manifestation

unembodiedembodied

Given corporeal expression

corporeal · bodily · incarnate · bodied · physical

tangibility and substance

unembodiedtangible

Perceptible by touch

material · substantial · concrete · solid · palpable

manifestation

unembodiedmanifested

Showed or revealed plainly

realized · expressed · actualized · materialized · instantiated

Family

body, embody, embodiment, embodied, disembodied, disembody, disembodiment, reembody, reembodied

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