different between incorporeality vs wraith

English

Noun

incorporeality (usually uncountable, plural incorporealities)

1. The state or characteristic of being incorporeal.
   • 2003, James Porter Moreland and William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, ?ISBN, p. 507:

     God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.

Synonyms

• disembodiedness
• incorporeity

English

Etymology

First attested 1513, in a Middle Scots translation of the Aeneid.

The word has no certain etymology. J. R. R. Tolkien favored a link with writhe. Also compared are Scots warth and Old Norse v?rðr (“watcher, guardian”), whence Icelandic vörður (“guard”). See also wray/bewray, from Middle English wreien. Perhaps from wrath as a wraith is a vengeful spirit.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?th, IPA^(key): /?e??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

wraith (plural wraiths)

1. A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ghost
2. (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE) A showy motor vehicle, a ”whip”.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:automobile

Derived terms

• wraithish
• wraithful
• wraithlike

Translations

Further reading

• wraith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wraith in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References