Intangible
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Anything intangible Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes
Example sentence: As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.
Abstract
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An abridgement or summary.Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.An abstraction; an abstract term.An abstract work of art.That which is abstract.A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Extracted.Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.Absent in mind.Apart from practice or reality; not concrete; ideal; vague; theoretical; impersonal.Difficult to understand; abstruse.Free from representational qualities.General (as opposed to particular).Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To separate; to remove; to take away.To withdraw.(euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.To create artistic abstractions of.To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself.To draw off (interest or attention).To extract by means of distillation.To withdraw oneself; to retire.To perform the process of abstraction.To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
Example sentence: We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.