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单词 intangible
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intangibleadj.n.

/ɪnˈtandʒɪb(ə)l/
Etymology: < medieval Latin intangibilis, < in- (in- prefix4) + Latin tangibilis tangible adj. and n.: compare French intangible (1508 in Godefroy Compl.).
A. adj.
a. Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not cognizable by the sense of touch; impalpable.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > not perceptible by the senses or beyond the senses
unsensiblec1380
insensible1509
imperceptible1536
ungropable1558
untouchable1567
unfeelable1609
unsensive1616
intactible1623
intangible1640
supersensual1647
intactile1660
supersensitive1701
touchless1767
supersensible1795
untangible1816
insensile1822
ungraspable1822
suprasensitive1825
suprasensible1831
suprasensuous1838
subsensual1840
unsensuous1850
supersensational1853
insensuousa1861
1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1684) ii. 148 A Man should be still in danger of knocking his head against every Wall and Pillar; unless it were also intangible, as some of the Peripateticks affirm.
1717 S. Clarke Papers between Leibnitz & Clarke 151 The Means by which Two Bodies attract each other, may be invisible and intangible.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation iii. iii. 464 The proportion of monied and other moveable and all but intangible property..has increased ten-fold since the accession of George I.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. iii. 76 The assumption of this wonderful intangible aether.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 78 Incorporeal [things] are those that are intangible..such as an inheritance, a usufruct.
b. figurative. That cannot be grasped mentally.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adjective]
uncouthc897
unnimlyc1225
incomprehensiblea1340
unsearchablec1384
unknowable?c1400
investigablea1425
uncomprehensiblea1425
unthinkablec1445
imperscrutablec1450
inscrutablec1450
inopinable?a1475
incomprenable1502
unspectable?1504
incogitablec1522
uncogitable1529
impenetrable1531
inimaginable1534
inexplicable1555
unsensible1555
unscrutable1562
unfashionable1563
unpenetrable1581
unexcogitable1592
ineffable1598
inexcogitable1599
indivinable1603
ininvestigable1604
incapable1605
searchless?1606
uncomprehensive1609
unconceivable1611
undivinable1611
unimaginable1611
unexplicable1615
unintelligible1616
unapprehensible?1617
unfathomable1617
imprehensible1622
ununderstandablea1631
indeprehensible1633
indiscernible1635
inscrute1639
inapprehensiblea1641
indiscoverable1640
unexaminable1641
impervestigable1643
fathomless1645
inconceivable1646
indeterminable1646
inexplorable1646
insearchable1647
incomprehended1652
comprehendlessa1654
incomprehensive1656
untraceable1661
uninvestigablea1677
unintelligent1683
incognoscible1691
thought-transcendinga1711
uncognizable1720
acataleptic1727
undescriptive1744
elusive1751
impalpable1781
inaccessible1796
unconjecturable1806
uncognoscible1821
unascertainable1827
unfixable1831
unguessable1832
unrealizable1832
unsurveyable1833
hard-shelled1835
unintellective1837
undeemed1845
graspless1849
unconjectured1850
incognizable1852
ungraspable1853
unreadable1853
super-cerebral1854
elusory1856
trans-conscious1865
intangible1880
uncatchable1892
unspelt1892
unplumbable1895
unknowledgeable1920
indiscutable1933
1880 Mem. John Legge 127 To the irreligious man all this is intangible, unintelligible.
1898 W. M. Ramsay Was Christ born in Bethlehem? 20 This abstract and rather intangible argument must yield to the demonstration of hard facts.
c. Inviolable.
ΚΠ
1929 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. 11/2 Acceptance of the Young plan as an intangible and indivisible whole.
B. n.
Anything intangible; spec. (in plural) = intangible assets, i.e. assets (e.g. goodwill, rights, etc.) which cannot easily or precisely be measured.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > assets
family jewels1819
asset1825
net asset1863
fixed asset1898
intangible1914
net current asset1919
hidden reserve1930
tangible assets1930
family silver1976
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of
lock1563
incomprehensibility1651
inscrutables1665
incomprehensible1678
inconceivable1706
I know not what1711
unknowable1725
unsearchable1725
indefinable1810
a sealed book1814
unknowable1816
unintelligible1838
inconceivability1851
imponderable1855
inscrutablenessa1864
unfathomability1867
unthinkable1871
closed book1913
intangible1914
imponderabilia1925
generation gap1962
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing
spiritual1495
incorporate?1533
immateriality1648
insensible1656
incorporal1678
incorporeity1743
imponderable1855
intangible1914
non-object1914
1914 A. C. McLaughlin & A. B. Hart Cycl. Amer. Govt. III. 496/1 The term ‘personal property’..includes..visible property and intangibles.
1930 Economist 29 Mar. 710/1 Net tangible assets may be defined as total assets less ‘intangibles’ (goodwill, patents, etc.), current liabilities, and funded debt.
1933 Discovery Oct. 313/2 Scientific changes were coming in so thick and fast that other factors in social life—the intangibles of credit, the improvements in political and international ideas—were unequal to the task of accommodating them.
1949 Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 30/3 The intangibles—the many local developments—being not reducible to statistics, the food of all bureaucracy, count for nothing.
1957 Economist 19 Oct. (Suppl.) 1/2 The success of individual motor producers will depend mainly upon intangibles such as the success of their design policy.

Derivatives

inˈtangibleness n.
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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Intangibleness, the quality of being intangible.
inˈtangibly adv. so as to be intangible.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adverb]
immateriallya1398
incorporeally1626
indistantly1656
intangibly1678
unextendedly1678
impalpably1796
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 769 That which is Extended also, but Penetrably and Intangibly, which is Space or Vacuum.
1887 E. F. Byrrne Heir without Heritage II. v. 91 The most intangibly delicate sense of duty.

Draft additions September 2017

intangible property n. Law property (such as shares, trademarks, and patents) which has no physical existence; opposed to tangible property n. at tangible adj. and n. Additions.
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1834 Amer. Jurist & Law Mag. Apr. 300 The right of attachment should extend..to intangible property, such as shares in corporations.
1924 J. R. Commons Legal Found. Capitalism v.160 To the first corporation these stocks and bonds are intangible property.
1970 Jrnl. Econ. Issues 4 40 Claims may be rather ethereal when we consider intangible property, such as trade names.
2015 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 31 Mar. 44 Intangible property can be relocated at the click of a mouse.
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