as in incorporeal
not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch
electrical energy is completely intangible
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The recognition as an intangible cultural heritage comes as the country tries to combat those imitating its food.
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Meghan Pryce, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025
Garrido Haguet is currently developing documentary projects focused on Latin American cultural heritage with a special interest in ancestral crafts and millenary traditions that form part of the intangible heritage of his country, observed from a contemporary perspective.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2025
These days, financial statements include a positive amount for goodwill and intangible assets.
—Joshua Sammons, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
In 2020, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania successfully submitted couscous to UNESCO for intangible cultural heritage status.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
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incorporeal
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In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.—
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Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.—
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“Intangible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intangible. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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