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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
impalpable, intangible asset, nonphysical
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