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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French intangible, from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tango.
Pronunciation
Adjective
intangible (comparative more intangible, superlative most intangible)
- Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
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Translations
incapable of being perceived
- Arabic: غَيْر مَلْمُوس (ḡayr malmūs), مَعْنَوِيّ (maʕnawiyy)
- Bulgarian: неуловим (bg) (neulovim), неосезаем (bg) (neosezaem)
- Catalan: intangible
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無形的 / 无形的 (wúxíng de)
- Czech: nehmatatelný, nehmotný
- Dutch: ontastbaar (nl), ongrijpbaar (nl)
- Finnish: abstrakti (fi), aineeton (fi)
- French: intangible (fr), immatériel (fr)
- German: abstrakt (de), ungreifbar (de), immateriell (de), vage (de), unklar (de)
- Greek: ασαφής (el) m or f (asafís), ακαθόριστος (el) m (akathóristos), αδιόρατος (el) m (adióratos), αόριστος (el) m (aóristos)
- Japanese: 無形 (ja) (mukei)
- Kazakh: бейматериалдық (beimaterialdyq), материалды емес (materialdy emes), материалдық емес (materialdyq emes)
- Latin: intactilis
- Manx: neuventynagh, neuloaghtagh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: immateriell
- Nynorsk: immateriell
- Polish: nieuchwytny (pl) m
- Romanian: intangibil (ro) m, de neatins, nepalpabil m
- Russian: неосязаемый (ru) (neosjazajemyj)
- Spanish: intangible (es)
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Noun
intangible (plural intangibles)
- Anything intangible
1980 April 5, Aaron Cohen, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, in Gay Community News, page 12:Diaghilev's love for Nijinsky was as deep and as sincere and reliant as a bond could be, it being based on all those intangibles of love that cannot be enumerated.
- (law) Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes
Translations
French
Etymology
From in- + tangible.
Pronunciation
Adjective
intangible (plural intangibles)
- intangible
- Synonym: immatériel
- Antonym: tangible
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /intanˈxible/
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: in‧tan‧gi‧ble
Adjective
intangible m or f (masculine and feminine plural intangibles)
- intangible
- Antonym: tangible
Derived terms
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