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Definition of Disembodied spirit
1. Noun. Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings.
Exact synonyms: Spirit
Generic synonyms: Spiritual Being, Supernatural Being
Specialized synonyms: Control, Evil Spirit, Banshee, Banshie, Djinn, Djinni, Djinny, Genie, Jinnee, Jinni, Familiar, Familiar Spirit, Peri, Apparition, Fantasm, Phantasm, Phantasma, Phantom, Specter, Spectre, Presence, Kachina, Numen, Python, Silvan, Sylvan, Thunderbird, Zombi, Zombi Spirit, Zombie, Zombie Spirit
Derivative terms: Spiritual
Generic synonyms: Spiritual Being, Supernatural Being
Specialized synonyms: Control, Evil Spirit, Banshee, Banshie, Djinn, Djinni, Djinny, Genie, Jinnee, Jinni, Familiar, Familiar Spirit, Peri, Apparition, Fantasm, Phantasm, Phantasma, Phantom, Specter, Spectre, Presence, Kachina, Numen, Python, Silvan, Sylvan, Thunderbird, Zombi, Zombi Spirit, Zombie, Zombie Spirit
Derivative terms: Spiritual
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disembodied Spirit
Literary usage of Disembodied spirit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on some of the peculiarities of the Christian religion by Richard Whately (1825)
"To the Christian, indeed, all this doubl would be instantly removed, if he found
that the immortality of the soul, as a disembodied spirit, were revealed to ..."
2. Choice Literature: A Monthly Magazine (1885)
"With natural inconsistency the disembodied spirit speaks now of itself, and now
of the unburied body as the "I":— the legendary picture of the gloomy region ..."