incorporeal

in- +‎ corporeal

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/

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incorporeal (comparative more incorporeal, superlative most incorporeal)

1. Having no material form or physical substance.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.

   • 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:

     Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.

2. (law) Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.

• (having no material form): disembodied; intangible; uncorporeal

• corporeal

• pericoronal