Synonyms

discarnate

American

[dis-kahr-nit, -neyt] / dɪsˈkɑr nɪt, -neɪt /

adjective

without a physical body; incorporeal.

Other Word Forms

discarnation noun

Etymology

Origin of discarnate

1655–65; dis ¹ + -carnate, as in incarnate

Example Sentences

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Two years ago, he announced $1 million in grants from his Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies for research "into contact and communication with post-mortem or discarnate consciousness."

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2023

“If we see a shadow going through one wall and through another, we don’t know for sure if it was a discarnate human spirit or E.T.,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021

We already inhabit a world in which we’re subject to the opaque judgments of discarnate algorithms with eyes and ears everywhere and bodies nowhere.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

Lying on his back, staring at a ceiling he could not see, Ben felt discarnate, a voiceless body buried accidentally, smelling the top of the coffin for the first time.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

I predict that you and your like will yet be forced, like Lombroso, to take your place with Aksakof, Lodge, Wallace, Du Prel, and Crookes, who have come to admit the intervention of discarnate intelligences.

From The Shadow World by Garland, Hamlin

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