disembodiment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.05 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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; […]"
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English disembody Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English disembodiment From disembody + -ment.