asomatous

[ ey-soh-muh-tuhs, uh-soh- ]

adjective

1. having no material body; incorporeal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of asomatous¹

1725–35; < Late Latin asōmatus < Greek asṓmatos bodiless, equivalent to a- a- ⁶ + sōmatos, adj. derivative of sôma body; soma ¹, -ous

Example Sentences

I also just did a horror film called “Asomatous,” probably one of the sickest characters I ever played.

From Washington Times

Yet this problem, to your eyes, I fear, not essentially novel or peculiarly involute, holds for my contemplative faculties an extraordinary fascination, to wit: wherein does the mind, in itself a muscle, escape from the laws of the physical, and wherein and wherefore do the laws of the physical exercise so inexorable a jurisdiction over the processes of the mind, so that a disorder of the visual nerve actually distorts the asomatous and veils the pneumatoscopic?

From Project Gutenberg

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