disembodiment

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noun

The process or state of disembodying.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

noundisembodiment (countable and uncountable, plural disembodiments)

plural disembodiments

  1. 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 Guardian
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    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. 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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APA

disembodiment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disembodiment

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Chicago

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