'Intangible' definitions:
Definition of 'intangible'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value; "intangible assets such as good will" [ant: tangible]
adjective
Incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy"- James Jeans [syn: intangible, impalpable] [ant: tangible, touchable]
adjective
Hard to pin down or identify; "an intangible feeling of impending disaster"
adjective
Lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; "that intangible thing--the soul" [syn: intangible, nonphysical]
noun
Assets that are saleable though not material or physical [syn: intangible, intangible asset]
Definition of 'Intangible'
From: GCIDE
- Intangible \In*tan"gi*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + tangible: cf. F. intangible.] Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible. --Bp. Wilkins. [1913 Webster]
- A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being. --Marshall. -- {In*tan"gi*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*tan"gi*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intangible'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aerial,
- aeriform,
- airy,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- atomic,
- bodiless,
- corpuscular,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- dim,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- eluding,
- elusive,
- embryonic,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- evasive,
- extramundane,
- fleeting,
- germinal,
- ghostly,
- granular,
- immaterial,
- impalpable,
- imperceptible,
- imponderable,
- imprecise,
- inappreciable,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- indefinite,
- indiscernible,
- infinitesimal,
- insensible,
- insubstantial,
- invisible,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- molecular,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- nonsubstantial,
- obscure,
- occult,
- otherworldly,
- phantom,
- psychic,
- rare,
- shadowy,
- slender,
- slight,
- spiritual,
- subatomic,
- supernatural,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- transmundane,
- ultramicroscopic,
- unapparent,
- unappreciable,
- unconcrete,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfleshly,
- unobservable,
- unperceivable,
- unphysical,
- unseeable,
- unsolid,
- unsubstanced,
- unsubstantial,
- unworldly,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- weightless