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INTANGIBLE DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found


Websters 1828 Dictionary

Intangible INTANG'IBLE, a. [in and tangible.] That cannot or may not be touched.
1. Not perceptible to the touch.
A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being.


WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)

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: intangible, impalpable] [ant: tangible, touchable] 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: intangible, nonphysical] n 1: assets that are saleable though not material or physical [syn: intangible, intangible asset]




Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003)

intangible I. adjective Etymology: French or Medieval Latin; French, from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Latin in- + Late Latin tangibilis tangible Date: 1640 not tangible ; impalpable <education's intangible benefits> • intangibility nounintangibleness nounintangibly adverb II. noun Date: 1914 something intangible: as a. an asset (as goodwill) that is not corporeal b. an abstract quality or attribute (as loyalty or creativity)

Oxford English Reference Dictionary

intangible
adj. & n.
--adj.
1 unable to be touched; not solid.
2 unable to be grasped mentally.
--n. something that cannot be precisely measured or assessed.
Derivatives:
intangibility n. intangibly adv.
Etymology: F intangible or med.L intangibilis (as IN-(1), TANGIBLE)


Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary

intangible (intangibles) Something that is intangible is abstract or is hard to define or measure. There are intangible benefits beyond a rise in the share price. ADJ • You can refer to intangible things as intangibles. Women workers place more importance on intangibles such as a sense of achievement. N-PLURAL

English Explanatory Dictionary

intangible ɪnˈtændʒəbl adj. & n. --adj. 1 unable to be touched; not solid. 2 unable to be grasped mentally. --n. something that cannot be precisely measured or assessed. øøintangibility n. intangibly adv. [F intangible or med.L intangibilis (as IN-(1), TANGIBLE)]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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. A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being. --Marshall. -- In*tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- In*tan"gi*bly, adv.

Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms

intangible a. 1. Impalpable, that cannot be touched, that cannot be felt. 2. Impalpable, imperceptible, indefinite, vague, dim.

English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms)

intangible ɪnˈtændʒəbl adj. impalpable, unperceivable, imperceptible, incorporeal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, imponderable, immaterial, ethereal, vaporous, airy, evanescent, vague, obscure, dim, imprecise, indefinite, shadowy, fleeting, elusive: The architect must deal with intangible ideas of design, how people work and live, etc.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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


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