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DISEMBODIED SPIRIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
Synonyms:
disembodied spirit; spirit
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("disembodied spirit" is a kind of...):
spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disembodied spirit"):
control (a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance)
evil spirit (a spirit tending to cause harm)
banshee; banshie ((Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death)
djinn; djinni; djinny; genie; jinnee; jinni ((Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals)
familiar; familiar spirit (a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard)
peri ((Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done)
apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; specter; spectre (a ghostly appearing figure)
presence (an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby)
kachina (a deified spirit of the Pueblo people)
numen (a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion))
python (a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit)
silvan; sylvan (a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods)
thunderbird ((mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird)
zombi; zombi spirit; zombie; zombie spirit ((voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body)
