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| intangibleness
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intangible
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun intangible has 1 sense
- intangible(n = noun.possession) intangible asset - assets that are saleable though not material or physical; Array is a kind of assets
has particulars: good will, goodwill
Adjective intangible has 4 senses
- intangible(a = adj.all) Array - (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value; "intangible assets such as good will" Derived form noun intangibleness1
- intangible(a = adj.all) impalpable - incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy" Derived forms noun intangibility1, noun intangibleness1
- intangible(s = adj.all) Array - hard to pin down or identify; "an intangible feeling of impending disaster" Derived form noun intangibleness1
- intangible(s = adj.all) nonphysical - lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; "that intangible thing--the soul" Derived forms noun intangibility1, noun intangibleness1
Antonym: tangible
Antonym: tangible
CIDE DICTIONARY
intangible, 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."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
intangible, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 unable to be touched; not solid.
2 unable to be grasped mentally.
--n. something that cannot be precisely measured or assessed.
--adj.
1 unable to be touched; not solid.
2 unable to be grasped mentally.
--n. something that cannot be precisely measured or assessed.
Derivative
intangibility n. intangibly adv.
Etymology
F intangible or med.L intangibilis (as IN-(1), TANGIBLE)
THESAURUS
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, weightlessROGET THESAURUS
intangible
Littleness
N littleness, smallness, exiguity, inextension, parvitude, parvity, duodecimo, Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm, rudiment, vanishing point, thinness, dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf, atomy, dandiprat, doll, puppet, Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb, manikin, mannikin, homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow, animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon, bacteria, infusoria, microzoa, phytozoaria, microbe, grub, tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry, millet seed, mustard seed, barleycorn, pebble, grain of sand, molehill, button, bubble, point, atom, fragment, powder, point of a pin, mathematical point, minutiae, micrometer, vernier, scale, microphotography, photomicrography, micrography, photomicrograph, microphotograph, microscopy, microscope (optical instruments), little, small, minute, diminutive, microscopic, microzoal, inconsiderable, exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin, undersized, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, spare, stunted, limited, cramp, cramped, pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket, portative, portable, duodecimo, dumpy, squat, short, impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial, infinitesimal, homoeopathic, atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular, rudimentary, rudimental, embryonic, vestigial, weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby, thin, granular, shrunk, brevipennate, in a small compass, in a nutshell, on a small scale, minutely, microscopically.Numbness
N numbness, anaesthesia, pins and needles, numb, benumbed, deadened, intangible, impalpable, (2) Heat.
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