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INTANGIBLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intangibleness mean?
• INTANGIBLENESS (noun)
The noun INTANGIBLENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch
Familiarity information: INTANGIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
impalpability; intangibility; intangibleness
Hypernyms ("intangibleness" is a kind of...):
immateriality; incorporeality (the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter)
Derivation:
intangible (lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen)
intangible (hard to pin down or identify)
intangible (incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch)
intangible ((of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value)
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