Intangible
adjective
Something that cannot be touched or physically felt, often because it's not a physical object.
Love and hate are intangible emotions.
Often appears as...
- intangible assets
- intangible benefits
adjective
Difficult or impossible to define or understand.
There was an intangible quality about her that made everyone like her.
Often appears as...
- intangible change
- intangible feeling
adjective
In business, it refers to value or assets not in physical form.
The company's intangible assets include its brand recognition and customer loyalty.
Often appears as...
- intangible assets
- intangible property
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Something that cannot be touched or physically felt, often because it's not a physical object.
Love and hate are intangible emotions.
Often appears as...
- intangible assets
- intangible benefits
adjective
Difficult or impossible to define or understand.
There was an intangible quality about her that made everyone like her.
Often appears as...
- intangible change
- intangible feeling
adjective
In business, it refers to value or assets not in physical form.
The company's intangible assets include its brand recognition and customer loyalty.
Often appears as...
- intangible assets
- intangible property
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Nonphysical Existence
Think beyond objects; intangible refers to things you feel or experience but can't touch.
The charm of the old town was intangible, yet everyone felt it.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Concepts
Use 'intangible' for abstract emotions or concepts such as fear, success, or freedom.
The intangible thrill of adventure calls many to travel.
Pro Tip 1/2Nonphysical Existence
Think beyond objects; intangible refers to things you feel or experience but can't touch.
The charm of the old town was intangible, yet everyone felt it.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Concepts
Use 'intangible' for abstract emotions or concepts such as fear, success, or freedom.
The intangible thrill of adventure calls many to travel.
Pro Tip 1/2Nonphysical Existence
Think beyond objects; intangible refers to things you feel or experience but can't touch.
The charm of the old town was intangible, yet everyone felt it.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Concepts
Use 'intangible' for abstract emotions or concepts such as fear, success, or freedom.
The intangible thrill of adventure calls many to travel.
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Life lessons from an ad...
But, actually, it's suddenly come to me after years working in the business, that what we create in advertising, which is intangible value -- you might call it perceived value, you might call it badge value, subjective value, intangible value of some kind -- gets rather a bad rap. If you think about it, if you want to live in a world in the future
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Chip Conley: Measuring...
They didn't even see the intangible stuff higher up the pyramid. So I started asking myself the How can we get leaders to start valuing the intangible? If we're taught as leaders to just manage what we can measure, and all we can measure is the tangible in life, we're missing a whole lot of things at the top of the pyramid.
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Measuring what makes...
the pyramid they didn't actually even see the intangible stuff higher up the pyramid so I started asking myself the question how can we get leaders to start valuing the intangible if we're taught as leaders to just manage what we can measure and all we can measure is the tangible in life we're missing a whole
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Jamais Cascio: Tools for...
a real time display of mileage showing precisely how one's driving habits affect the vehicle's efficiency. The last few years have all seen the rise of innovations in how we measure and display aspects of the world that can be too big, or too intangible, or too slippery to grasp easily.
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Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
management of the tangible and intangible assets of the state through regulation, creation of the market, international agreements, including public borrowing, and then, most importantly, rule of law. I won't elaborate. I hope the questions will give me an opportunity.
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Marcos Aguiar: 7 tools...
I study the structures and systems of businesses and organizations. So, a couple of years ago, I started wondering whether we could decode and manage this seemingly intangible concept of trust. I'm pleased to report we are doing it, which I believe is really important,
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Exodus, a new design...
experience is something that first exists in the intangible and then happens and so now I want to talk about exodus exit out of the design school for Nigeria where we create new realities for the country through our imagination and use design process and compassion as
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Compelling Models for...
and utterly directly there's no disconnect with that and that was why we ended up with this approach of using astronauts to connect us to it to try and examine the world with this overview perspective but an overview perspective is a very difficult and an intangible
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Will we ever be able to...
like tangible matter, nor does it exactly transmit across space, like intangible information. It seems to do a little of both. Quantum physics gives us a strange new vision for all the matter in our universe as collections of fragile information.
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Why you should define...
and actions and decisions like it, what might my life look like in, say, six months, 12 months, three years? Any further out, it starts to seem intangible. And really get detailed -- again, emotionally, financially, physically, whatever.
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Life lessons from an ad...
But, actually, it's suddenly come to me after years working in the business, that what we create in advertising, which is intangible value -- you might call it perceived value, you might call it badge value, subjective value, intangible value of some kind -- gets rather a bad rap. If you think about it, if you want to live in a world in the future
Video examples
Chip Conley: Measuring...
They didn't even see the intangible stuff higher up the pyramid. So I started asking myself the How can we get leaders to start valuing the intangible? If we're taught as leaders to just manage what we can measure, and all we can measure is the tangible in life, we're missing a whole lot of things at the top of the pyramid.
Video examples
Measuring what makes...
the pyramid they didn't actually even see the intangible stuff higher up the pyramid so I started asking myself the question how can we get leaders to start valuing the intangible if we're taught as leaders to just manage what we can measure and all we can measure is the tangible in life we're missing a whole
Video examples
Jamais Cascio: Tools for...
a real time display of mileage showing precisely how one's driving habits affect the vehicle's efficiency. The last few years have all seen the rise of innovations in how we measure and display aspects of the world that can be too big, or too intangible, or too slippery to grasp easily.
Video examples
Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
management of the tangible and intangible assets of the state through regulation, creation of the market, international agreements, including public borrowing, and then, most importantly, rule of law. I won't elaborate. I hope the questions will give me an opportunity.
Video examples
Marcos Aguiar: 7 tools...
I study the structures and systems of businesses and organizations. So, a couple of years ago, I started wondering whether we could decode and manage this seemingly intangible concept of trust. I'm pleased to report we are doing it, which I believe is really important,
Video examples
Exodus, a new design...
experience is something that first exists in the intangible and then happens and so now I want to talk about exodus exit out of the design school for Nigeria where we create new realities for the country through our imagination and use design process and compassion as
Video examples
Compelling Models for...
and utterly directly there's no disconnect with that and that was why we ended up with this approach of using astronauts to connect us to it to try and examine the world with this overview perspective but an overview perspective is a very difficult and an intangible
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Will we ever be able to...
like tangible matter, nor does it exactly transmit across space, like intangible information. It seems to do a little of both. Quantum physics gives us a strange new vision for all the matter in our universe as collections of fragile information.
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Why you should define...
and actions and decisions like it, what might my life look like in, say, six months, 12 months, three years? Any further out, it starts to seem intangible. And really get detailed -- again, emotionally, financially, physically, whatever.
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
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Punit Renjen
Indian Businessman
Leaders who understand the importance of the intangible elements contributing to workplace culture become sensitive to what makes their organization truly special. That is how they define core values and beliefs that are unique, simple, leader-led, repetitive, and embedded - transforming themselves from good to exceptional.
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Steven Knight
English Director
Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.
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CeeLo Green
American Musician
My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.
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Sarah Lancashire
British Actress
When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's intangible, depression is an issue that people don't like to talk about. It's like a huge, guilty secret.
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Italian Statesman
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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Shweta Basu Prasad
Indian Actress
Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To see what the poet shows, to smell what he describes and the urge to taste the intangible.
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Nate Silver
American Writer
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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Jimmie Davis
American Politician
A song is the most intangible thing in the world.
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
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Punit Renjen
Indian Businessman
Leaders who understand the importance of the intangible elements contributing to workplace culture become sensitive to what makes their organization truly special. That is how they define core values and beliefs that are unique, simple, leader-led, repetitive, and embedded - transforming themselves from good to exceptional.
Quote examples
Steven Knight
English Director
Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.
Quote examples
CeeLo Green
American Musician
My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
Quote examples
Noreena Hertz
English Author
Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.
Quote examples
Sarah Lancashire
British Actress
When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's intangible, depression is an issue that people don't like to talk about. It's like a huge, guilty secret.
Quote examples
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Italian Statesman
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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Shweta Basu Prasad
Indian Actress
Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To see what the poet shows, to smell what he describes and the urge to taste the intangible.
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Nate Silver
American Writer
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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Jimmie Davis
American Politician
A song is the most intangible thing in the world.
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