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intangible is an adjective and noun meaning "(of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value". It carries 5 recorded senses.
(of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value
“intangible assets such as good will”
commercial enterprise
incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
“the intangible constituent of energy”
hard to pin down or identify
“an intangible feeling of impending disaster”
lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen
“that intangible thing--the soul”
assets that are saleable though not material or physical
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for intangible come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.