incorporeal

/ˌɪnkɔrˈpɔriəl/

Other forms: incorporeally

Something that has no material form or physical substance can be described as incorporeal. If you believe in spirits or ghosts that can't be touched or seen but only felt, then you believe in the incorporeal.

Incorporeal comes from a combination of the Latin root words in- meaning "not" and corpus meaning "body." Combined they form incorporeus, meaning "without body," which is precisely what something incorporeal is. A haunted house is plagued by incorporeal, or immaterial spirits. You don't see them, but they are there, rattling windows, slamming doors, scaring the living daylights out of you.

Definitions of incorporeal

1. adjective

   without material form or substance
   “an incorporeal spirit”

   synonyms: immaterial

   unbodied

   having no body

   bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied

   not having a material body

   spiritual

   lacking material body or form or substance

   antonyms:

   corporeal

   having material or physical form or substance

   bodied

   having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination

   bodily

   having or relating to a physical material body

   bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate

   possessing or existing in bodily form

   reincarnate

   having a new body