A philosophical or biological term meaning lacking a body or existing without physical form, though rarely used in modern contexts.
From Greek 'a-' (without) + 'soma' (body) + '-ous' suffix, creating an adjective for incorporeal or bodiless entities—used in philosophy to describe spirits or abstract beings.
Ancient Greek philosophers debated whether souls were 'asomatous' (bodiless)—this word carries 2,400 years of Western philosophy's obsession with separating mind from body, a divide we're still wrestling with today.
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