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Intangible   /ɪntˈændʒəbəl/   Listen
Intangible

adjective
1.
(of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value.
2.
Incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch.  Synonym: impalpable.
3.
Hard to pin down or identify.
4.
Lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen.  Synonym: nonphysical.
noun
1.
Assets that are saleable though not material or physical.  Synonym: intangible asset.



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"Intangible" Quotes from Famous Books



... breath of the East—that stretched out a yellow hand to the West. It was symbolic of the subtle, intangible power manifested in Dr. Fu-Manchu, as Nayland Smith—lean, agile, bronzed with the suns of Burma, was symbolic of the clean British efficiency which sought ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... blow at the pocket—seemed to affect Zack far more than that other blow at the intangible essence, his family honour. He could see his son Nim set off for the back settlements of Iowa without a pang; for it is in vulgar Yankee nature to fling abroad the sons and daughters of a house far and wide into the waters of the world, to make their own way, to sink or swim as happens. But ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... heedlessly along beside him, stopping now and then to gather a spray of goldenrod, or to gaze absently at the river through some open space in the trees. For Miss Guinevere Gusty lived in a world of her own—a world of vague possibilities, of half-defined longings, and intangible dreams. Love was still an abstract sentiment, something radiant and breathless that might envelop her at any moment and bear her away ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice
... more—a vague intangible something, that made the directness of his eyes disconcerting in a way it had not been before. Meryl felt a pink flush stealing over her face, and turned her head away to ...
— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page
... that in a vague intangible way there was an ideal in front of and behind this work. It is really not desirable for men who do not believe that knowledge is of value for its own sake to take up this kind of life. The question constantly put to us in civilization was and still is: "What ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard


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