Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no body, form, or substance; incorporeal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no body or material form; incorporeal: as, “phantoms bodiless and vain,”
Wiktionary
- adj. Lacking a body; incorporeal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having no body.
- adj. Without material form; incorporeal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having no trunk or main part
- adj. not having a material body
Examples
“If you wish to free yourself from birth and death, you must become bodiless, that is, non-physical.”
“These reflections kept away the thought and fear of the "bodiless," and she passed the kirkyard without being mindful of their proximity; the coming wedding, and the inevitable changes it would bring, filling her heart with all kinds of maternal anxieties, which in solitude would not be put aside for all the promised pride and _éclat_ of the event.”
“a kind of bodiless creature with just a brain and a human heart, the ghost of an old soldier, far away from the sphere of poor passions and little jealousies.”
“But fiction ... when I say secrecy, I mean not only the long, long immersion in privacy and isolation, and the wooing of phantoms out of the air, but those bodiless concealments and disclosures of language that lurk in certain turns of dialogue, or the turn of an eye, or a hand, or a shaft of sky.”
“As a spectator, to be positioned by the camera above, beside and amid the dancers of Bausch's Wuppertal troupe is not unlike floating bodiless through more solid phantoms.”
““Perhaps because you are, at this moment, bodiless.””
“Sadashiva was a nirkaya, which literally means "bodiless yogi.”
“The glowing greenish gauze was in a ferment, bubbling, uprearing, downfalling, and tentatively thrusting huge bodiless hands into the upper ether.”
“Elsewhere in the universe, people collect children from their parents with promises of virtual heaven, then ship them off via a superdense datalink as bodiless intelligences, to spin code in the software farms of space.”
“Once I had experienced what it feels like to recognize myself as a sphere of aware light in the bodiless state, I found I had become sensitive enough to perceive myself as that same sphere of communion here with a body.”
The Huffington Post: William Horden: Near Death Experience: Journey Of Two Souls
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