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Borrowed from Middle French intangible, from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tango.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/, [ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.bl̩]
• (US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒə.bəl/
• Hyphenation: in‧tan‧gib‧le

intangible (comparative more intangible, superlative most intangible)

1. Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
   Antonym: tangible

• intangible asset
• intangible cultural heritage
• intangibleness
• intangibly

incapable of being perceived

• Arabic: غَيْر مَلْمُوس (ḡayr malmūs), مَعْنَوِيّ (maʕnawiyy)
• Bulgarian: неуловим (bg) (neulovim), неосезаем (bg) (neosezaem)
• Catalan: intangible
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 無形的 / 无形的 (wúxíng de)
• Czech: nehmatatelný, nehmotný
• Dutch: ontastbaar (nl), ongrijpbaar (nl)
• Finnish: abstrakti (fi), aineeton (fi)
• French: intangible (fr), immatériel (fr)
• German: abstrakt (de), ungreifbar (de), immateriell (de), vage (de), unklar (de)
• Greek: ασαφής (el) m or f (asafís), ακαθόριστος (el) m (akathóristos), αδιόρατος (el) m (adióratos), αόριστος (el) m (aóristos)
• Indonesian: takbenda
• Italian: intangibile (it)
• Japanese: 無形 (ja) (mukei)
• Kazakh: бейматериалдық (beimaterialdyq), материалды емес (materialdy emes), материалдық емес (materialdyq emes)
• Latin: intactilis
• Manx: neuventynagh, neuloaghtagh
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: immateriell
  Nynorsk: immateriell
• Polish: nieuchwytny (pl) m
• Portuguese: intangível (pt)
• Romanian: intangibil (ro) m, de neatins, nepalpabil m
• Russian: неосяза́емый (ru) (neosjazájemyj), неулови́мый (ru) (neulovímyj)
• Spanish: intangible (es)

intangible (plural intangibles)

1. Anything intangible.
   • 1980 April 5, Aaron Cohen, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
     Diaghilev's love for Nijinsky was as deep and as sincere and reliant as a bond could be, it being based on all those intangibles of love that cannot be enumerated.
2. (law) Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes.

From in- +‎ tangible.

• IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.ʒibl/
• Hyphenation: in‧tan‧gible

intangible (plural intangibles)

1. intangible
   Synonym: immatériel
   Antonym: tangible

• intangiblement

• impalpable

• insensible

• intouchable

• “intangible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangō.

• IPA(key): /intanˈxible/ [ĩn̪.t̪ãŋˈxi.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: in‧tan‧gi‧ble

intangible m or f (masculine and feminine plural intangibles)

1. intangible
   Antonym: tangible

• intangibilidad

• intangiblemente

• tangible

• “intangible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025