nonphysical
Meaningnot of nature
Common meaning: not involving the body or bodily contact
- nonnot
- physthe way a thing grows; its natural make-upLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 876 · scan
- icaladjective ending: relating to
‘not’ + ‘the way a thing grows’ → nonphysical
Journey through time
- Greekφύσις‘the way a thing grows’
- Frenchphisike
- Englishnonphysical‘not involving the body or bodily contact’ · today
non- also in: nonverbalnonchalantnontrivialnonresidentnonverbally
phys also in: physiologymicrophysicsnonphysicallyneurophysiology
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek φύσις ‘the way a thing grows; its natural make-up’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry φύσις, p. 876 · dictionary scan
Roots
- φύσις Greek “the way a thing grows; its natural make-up”
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