Disembodied
adjective
Separated or existing without a body.
He heard a disembodied voice in the room.
Often appears as...
- disembodied voice
- disembodied spirit
adjective
Not having a physical form.
The saga speaks of disembodied spirits haunting the ancient house.
Often appears as...
- disembodied ghost
- disembodied consciousness
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adjective
Separated or existing without a body.
He heard a disembodied voice in the room.
Often appears as...
- disembodied voice
- disembodied spirit
adjective
Not having a physical form.
The saga speaks of disembodied spirits haunting the ancient house.
Often appears as...
- disembodied ghost
- disembodied consciousness
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Supernatural Usage
Often used to describe phenomena in ghost stories or supernatural contexts.
The room chilled as the disembodied whisper grew louder.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Experience
Refers to experiences that lack a visible source, especially sounds or voices.
She spun around, looking for the source of the disembodied laugh.
Pro Tip 3/3Mysteriousness
Implies an eerie or unsettling feeling because something is present without physical form.
A sense of fear filled him as he encountered the disembodied presence.
Pro Tip 1/3Supernatural Usage
Often used to describe phenomena in ghost stories or supernatural contexts.
The room chilled as the disembodied whisper grew louder.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Experience
Refers to experiences that lack a visible source, especially sounds or voices.
She spun around, looking for the source of the disembodied laugh.
Pro Tip 3/3Mysteriousness
Implies an eerie or unsettling feeling because something is present without physical form.
A sense of fear filled him as he encountered the disembodied presence.
Pro Tip 1/3Supernatural Usage
Often used to describe phenomena in ghost stories or supernatural contexts.
The room chilled as the disembodied whisper grew louder.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Experience
Refers to experiences that lack a visible source, especially sounds or voices.
She spun around, looking for the source of the disembodied laugh.
Pro Tip 3/3Mysteriousness
Implies an eerie or unsettling feeling because something is present without physical form.
A sense of fear filled him as he encountered the disembodied presence.
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Your elusive creative...
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Your elusive creative...
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Kevin Kelly: The next...
as something that was going to be a disembodied, alternative, virtual existence, and that we would have the old economy of atoms. But in fact, what the new economy really is is the marriage of those two, where we embed the information, and the digital nature of things into the material world.
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Do schools kill...
But they're rather curious. And I say this out of affection for there's something curious about professors. In my experience -- not all of them, but typically -- they live in their heads. They live up there and slightly to one side. They're disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way.
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Nationalism vs....
and not finding their place in the world, I would think that the chief problem is not global capitalism. The chief problem is that over the last hundred years, people have been becoming disembodied, have been distancing themselves from their body.
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A wish to have AI give a...
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Antony Gormley: Sculpted...
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want to crash around and disturb the den at all they want to try and be as respectful as possible so for now it's going to be fairly sort of long distance views of them in the kitchen you can see that one is having the best time with mom's tail now before we kind of get into all of this I need to just tell you who I am so that I'm not a disembodied
Video examples
Your elusive creative...
this is how it functioned right so the ancient artist was protected from certain things like for example too much narcissism right if your work was brilliant couldn't take all the credit for it everybody knew you had this like disembodied genius who had helped you if your work bombed not entirely your fault
Video examples
Your elusive creative...
And everyone knew that this is how it functioned, right? So the ancient artist was protected from certain things, like, for example, too much narcissism, right? If your work was brilliant, you couldn't take all the credit for it, everybody knew that you had this disembodied genius who had helped you.
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Kevin Kelly: The next...
as something that was going to be a disembodied, alternative, virtual existence, and that we would have the old economy of atoms. But in fact, what the new economy really is is the marriage of those two, where we embed the information, and the digital nature of things into the material world.
Video examples
Do schools kill...
But they're rather curious. And I say this out of affection for there's something curious about professors. In my experience -- not all of them, but typically -- they live in their heads. They live up there and slightly to one side. They're disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way.
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Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
main North River camera as you can see a gathering of wildebeest has started on the banks it seems as though it's crossing time once again just a quick introduction because otherwise I'm going to continue well I'm going to continue to be a disembodied voice my name is
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Nationalism vs....
and not finding their place in the world, I would think that the chief problem is not global capitalism. The chief problem is that over the last hundred years, people have been becoming disembodied, have been distancing themselves from their body.
Video examples
3 steps to stop remote...
Being on camera is a performance. Thoughtless scheduling can mean you're basically onstage performing for eight hours a day. There are none of the nuanced cues that help you read a room. Staring at disembodied heads on a screen
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A wish to have AI give a...
standing ovation from you the audience so we're agnostic as to how that talk might be presented could be a robot strolling on to the stage or an avatar or a disembodied sexy voice and the
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Antony Gormley: Sculpted...
freed from the dimensionful and measured way in which life links us to the obligatory. But this is a space that is actually filled with people, disembodied voices,
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Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.
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Jennifer Egan
American Novelist
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.
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Serge Schmemann
Journalist
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
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Richard Powers
American Novelist
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
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Thomas Hobbes
English Philosopher
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
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Rupert Sheldrake
British Scientist
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.
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Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
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Trevor Paglen
American Artist
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
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Antonio Damasio
Portuguese Scientist
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
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Susan George
American Activist
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
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Glenn Greenwald
American Journalist
When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.
Quote examples
Jennifer Egan
American Novelist
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.
Quote examples
Serge Schmemann
Journalist
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
Quote examples
Richard Powers
American Novelist
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
Quote examples
Thomas Hobbes
English Philosopher
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Quote examples
Rupert Sheldrake
British Scientist
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.
Quote examples
Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
Quote examples
Trevor Paglen
American Artist
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
Quote examples
Antonio Damasio
Portuguese Scientist
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
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Susan George
American Activist
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
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