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Intangible

Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.

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Immaterial 84% connected

Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Immaterial 84% connected

Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.

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Assets 76% connected

Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impalpability 74% connected

The quality of being impalpable.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Impalpability 74% connected

The quality of being impalpable.

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Intangibility 74% connected

The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.

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Intangibility 74% connected

The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.

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Impalpable 92% connected

Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tangible 94% connected

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

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Tangible 94% connected

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Alcohol noun · 78% connection

An impalpable powder.

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Alcoholization noun · 78% connection

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder.

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Border verb · 78% connection

To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the reg…

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Chattel noun · 78% connection

personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc.)

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Corporeal adjective · 78% connection

having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin J…

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Die verb · 78% connection

To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.

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Evanescent adjective · 78% connection

Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.

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Good will noun · 78% connection

(accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible…

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Goodwill noun · 78% connection

(accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible…

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Hit verb · 78% connection

To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

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Holding noun · 78% connection

something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"

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Humidity noun · 78% connection

Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or o…

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Impalpably adverb · 78% connection

In an impalpable manner.

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Impassible adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing fee…

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Impatiens noun · 78% connection

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched,…

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Imperceivable adjective · 78% connection

Imperceptible.

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Imperceptibility noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being imperceptible.

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Indiscernible adjective · 78% connection

Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.

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