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disembodiment

disembodiment noun: the process or state of disembodying.

Noun

disembodiment (countable and uncountable, plural disembodiments)

  1. The process or state of disembodying.
    • His way of ignoring people whose presence inconvenienced him actually gave them, if they were sensitive to it, a feeling of invisibility, of nonexistence. Archer, as the three strolled back through the park, was aware of this odd sense of disembodiment; […]1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
    • Those groggy, stumbling beats, for a start (K has long been infamous on the US rave scene as an anti-dance drug, a chemical that killed rave energy), not to mention wonky's combination of intense physicality (that w-w-w-wobbly bass) with a sensation of disembodiment.2009 March 5, Simon Reynolds, “Feeling wonKy: is it ketamine's turn to drive club culture?”, in The Guardian
  2. A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form.

Forms of disembodiment

pluraldisembodiments

Origin of disembodiment

From disembody + -ment.

Questions about disembodiment

What does disembodiment mean?
Disembodiment means the process or state of disembodying.
What part of speech is disembodiment?
Disembodiment is a noun.
What is the plural of disembodiment?
The plural of disembodiment is disembodiments.

Words near disembodiment in the dictionary

  1. disembitters
  2. disembodied
  3. disembodiedly
  4. disembodiedness
  5. disembodies
  6. disembodiment
  7. disembodiments
  8. disembody
  9. disembodying
  10. disembogue
  11. disembogued

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