unembodied

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In Arbery’s other plays, this sense of looming catastrophe lurks offstage, just beyond the lights, unembodied.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

One can admire or analyze them profitably, but whatever is outside the museum or gallery stays safely and discretely outside, unembodied, hypothetical at best.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2015

Telepathy indefinitely extends the range of an unembodied spirit's potential presence.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

It was a vision—a dream with his eyes open: indistinct, unembodied, a very shadow; still it floated about in his imagination, and he was sad.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry

I knew not how, but I was there, All feeling, hearing, seeing; It was not wind that stirred my hair, But living breath, the essence rare Of unembodied being.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various