intangible

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But the intangible is the collective memory of Cat-borne economic woes.

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  1. adjective Incapable of being perceived by the senses.
  2. adjective Incapable of being realized or defined.
  3. adjective Incorporeal.

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  • It was not that the man was intangible--it was Elric who felt the ghost.
  • But the intangible is the collective memory of Cat-borne economic woes. —  pjstar.com Home RSS
  • The intangible, the invisible, the vague, the shadowy, I leave to women and priests--concerning myself only with the substantial realities of life. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
  • And this is even truer of our loves--intangible spirit things as they are at best He did not wish that part of him to die utterly in her with his doomed frame But--" she shivered, "all this talk of graves and the dead It is all of the sun and the living," he replied earnestly. —  The Seventh Noon
  • Their peril is none the less real because intangible, and yet my part in it may not seem either wise or manly In truth every step towards his own door removed him an emotional league from the scene in the hall, and as the throb of Viola's agonized voice died out of his ears the crisis in her life grew hysteric, unsubstantial, and at last unreal. —  The Tyranny of the Dark
 

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  1. = French intangible = Spanish intangible = Italian intangibile; as in- + tangible.
 

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/ɪnˈtændʒɪbl/
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