nonphysical

/ (nɒnˈfɪzɪkəl) /

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adjective

not of or relating to the body or nature

not sexual; platonicintimate nonphysical friendships

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How to use nonphysical in a sentence

Royalty rates drop to the alarmingly fractional in this new “non-physical” arena.
Van Dyke Parks on How Songwriters Are Getting Screwed in the Digital Age|Van Dyke Parks|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But spirituality is more concerned with non-physical evolution.
Ask the Big Questions|Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow|October 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But Anaxagoras conceives the moving force as wholly non-physical and incorporeal.
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy|W. T. Stace
For a moment he knew genuine fear—the non-physical fear which the impalpable can awake in the bravest mind.
The Kingdom Round the Corner|Coningsby Dawson

In a word, the economic judgment assigns to the physical object, as known at the outset, a new non-physical character.
Studies in Logical Theory|John Dewey
The mechanism of inheritance must either be physical or it must be non-physical; that is, immaterial.
Science and Morals and Other Essays|Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
Do we not then have to supply a non-chemical, a non-physical force or factor to account for the living body?
The Breath of Life|John Burroughs

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