Intangible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intangible \In*tan"gi*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + tangible: cf. F.
     intangible.]
     Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to
     the touch; impalpable; imperceptible. --Bp. Wilkins.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible
           being.                                   --Marshall.
     -- {In*tan"gi*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*tan"gi*bly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intangible
       adj 1: (of especially business assets) not having physical
              substance or intrinsic productive value; "intangible
              assets such as good will" [ant: {tangible}]
       2: incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the
          sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy"-
          James Jeans [syn: {impalpable}] [ant: {tangible}]
       3: hard to pin down or identify; "an intangible feeling of
          impending disaster"
       4: lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or
          seen; "that intangible thing--the soul" [syn: {nonphysical}]
       n : assets that are saleable though not material or physical
           [syn: {intangible asset}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "intangible":
     aerial, aeriform, airy, asomatous, astral, atomic, bodiless,
     corpuscular, decarnate, decarnated, dim, discarnate, disembodied,
     eluding, elusive, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, evasive,
     extramundane, fleeting, germinal, ghostly, granular, immaterial,
     impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, imprecise, inappreciable,
     incorporate, incorporeal, indefinite, indiscernible, infinitesimal,
     insensible, insubstantial, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic,
     molecular, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, obscure,
     occult, otherworldly, phantom, psychic, rare, shadowy, slender,
     slight, spiritual, subatomic, supernatural, tenuous, thin,
     transmundane, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable,
     unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly,
     unobservable, unperceivable, unphysical, unseeable, unsolid,
     unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, vague, vaporous,
     weightless