Meanings
plural disembodiments
- countableuncountableThe process or state of disembodying.
[…] is giving military analysts an opportunity to review the mixed history of a weapon that has long been associated with low-cost war, a sense of disembodiment from conflict, and for inflicting a high number of civilian casualties.
2017 March 13, Edward Helmore, “US retires Predator drones after 15 years that changed the 'war on terror'”, in The Guardian2 more examples
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, →OCLCThose 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 - countableuncountableA soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form.
Origin
Translations
German Entkörperlichung
- Entkörperlichungspirit that lacks a physical form
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