disembodiment
disembodiment noun: the process or state of disembodying.
Noun
disembodiment (countable and uncountable, plural disembodiments)
- 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
- A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form.
Forms of disembodiment
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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.
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