Without a physical body; incorporeal or existing as a spirit or ghost, not having material form.
From Old English 'bodig' (body) plus the negation suffix '-less' meaning without. This formation became common in English to describe spiritual or abstract concepts lacking physical substance.
The concept of 'bodiless' existence fascinated medieval philosophers and ghost stories—the idea that consciousness or soul could exist without a body challenged everything people thought they knew about what it means to be alive.
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