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disembodiment en · NOUN

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.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process or state of disembodying.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • […] 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:
2. (countable, uncountable) A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form.

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Translations (3)

de Entkörperlichung (spirit that lacks a physical form) · sh neutjelovljenost (spirit that lacks a physical form) · sh bestjelesnost (spirit that lacks a physical form)