disembodiment

English

Etymology

From disembody +‎ -ment.

Noun

disembodiment (countable and uncountable, plural disembodiments)

1. The process or state of disembodying.
   • 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     His way of ignoring people whose presence inconvenienced him actually gave them, if they were sensitive to it, a feeling of invisibility, of nonexistence. Archer, as the three strolled back through the park, was aware of this odd sense of disembodiment; […]

   • 2009 March 5, Simon Reynolds, “Feeling wonKy: is it ketamine's turn to drive club culture?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Those groggy, stumbling beats, for a start (K has long been infamous on the US rave scene as an anti-dance drug, a chemical that killed rave energy), not to mention wonky's combination of intense physicality (that w-w-w-wobbly bass) with a sensation of disembodiment.

   • 2017 March 13, Edward Helmore, “US retires Predator drones after 15 years that changed the 'war on terror'”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     […] is giving military analysts an opportunity to review the mixed history of a weapon that has long been associated with low-cost war, a sense of disembodiment from conflict, and for inflicting a high number of civilian casualties.

2. A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form.

Translations

spirit that lacks a physical form

• German: Entkörperlichung (de) f
• Serbo-Croatian: neutjelovljenost, bestjelesnost (sh)