Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

desencarnado

English translation:

disembodied

Added to glossary by Kate Major Patience
Jan 27, 2009 01:47
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Spanish term

desencarnado

Spanish to English Social Sciences International Org/Dev/Coop Interculturality
El sujeto del liberalismo es un sujeto abstracto, desencarnado, que no pertenece a ningún espacio concreto ni vive en un tiempo específico.

desencarnar (according to DRAE): perder la afici'on a algo, dsprenderse de ello

What is this in (UK) English? I have a block, I think.

Thanks very much for your help in advance. :)

Discussion

Jochen König Jan 27, 2009:
"Disembodied" sounds good to me. Encarnar means to blush, so the opposite is something pale, lifeless. There's a definition on the Portuguese Wiktionary (same word there): to not live any more, to be in another dimension. http://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/desencarnar. So maybe "out of this world" would work too.
Kate Major Patience (asker) Jan 27, 2009:
"disembodied", perhaps?

Proposed translations

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disembodied

exactly

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also perhaps intangible? but I like disembodied....more or less literal
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agree Paula Strahm
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Thanks Paula
agree PeterIII
11 mins
Thank you Peter
agree Joseph Tein
25 mins
Many thanks Joseph
agree Robert Forstag
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agree Muriel Vasconcellos
4 hrs
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agree Alex Lago
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agree Charlotte Fairweather
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discarnate/incorporeal

http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discarnate

Main Entry:
dis•car•nate
Pronunciation:
\dis-ˈkär-nət, -ˌnāt\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
dis- + -carnate (as in incarnate)
Date:
1895
: having no physical body : INCORPOREAL
Peer comment(s):

agree Bubo Coroman (X) : I would go for "incorporeal"; other options here http://www.wordmagicsoft.com/dictionary/es-en/desencarnado.p...
4 mins
Thanks Deborah!
agree PeterIII
7 mins
Thank you PeterIII :P
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disinterested / uncaring / indiferent / unconcerned

I think any of these would serve

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Actually, I'll take it back; I think discarnate / incorporeal fit the bill
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agree Cristián Bianchi-Bruna
6 mins
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21 mins

discorporate/ unembodied/ bodiless/ unbodied/ disembodied/ discorporate/unembodied

Estas son las opciones que encontré en mi busqueda. Espero te sirvan!!!Saludos, Silvia

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