intangible
pronunciation
How to pronounce intangible in British English:
UK [ɪnˈtændʒəbl]
How to pronounce intangible in American English:
US [ɪnˈtændʒəbl]
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- Noun:
- assets that are saleable though not material or physical
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- Adjective:
- (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value
- incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- hard to pin down or identify
- lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen
Word Origin
- intangible (adj.)
- 1630s, "incapable of being touched," from French intangible (c. 1500) or directly from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + Late Latin tangibilis "that may be touched" (see tangible). Figurative sense of "that cannot be grasped by the mind" is from 1880. Noun meaning "anything intangible" is from 1914. Related: Intangibly.
Example
- 1. How do you learn something as intangible as comedy ?
- 2. It would be cleverer to remain intangible .
- 3. Instead , give him something intangible that will really matter .
- 4. There may be intangible benefits to being an olympic city .
- 5. It is as if the screen displays the object 's intangible essence .