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词汇 non-physical
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Definition of non-physical in English:

non-physical

adjective nɒnˈfɪzɪk(ə)l
  • 1Not relating to or concerning the body.

    非身体的

    both physical and non-physical ill-treatment

    身体和非身体的虐待。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mental illnesses may be cured in the future if we look at non-physical causes of these illnesses, and help people understand what they're going through.
    • Staff are also now trained in non-physical techniques to diffuse a confrontational situation as well as in physical self-defence.
    • The Bill permits parents to smack their children, although this should not be taken to mean that I endorse physical punishment over other non-physical methods of control.
    • Some Scottish patients thought that such non-physical needs went unmet.
    • They are just a convenient way of dealing with your non-physical functions.
    • My job is to pick non-physical fights with people.
    • The difficult areas relate primarily to non-physical harm, such as economic loss or psychiatric damage, and liability for omissions.
    • As for bullying, I was sometimes the victim of non-physical intimidation.
    • A more appropriate solution to deal with allegations of non-physical abuse would be through counselling, leaving the police and courts free to provide adequate sanctions to protect those really in need.
    • During this period and later she insisted on keeping their relationship non-physical, preferring to regard it as a ‘spiritual union’.
    • Some investigators focus on physical violence alone, whereas others include a broader range of abusive behaviours, including emotional and other non-physical abuse.
    • The relationship, obviously, is entirely non-physical.
    • NHS SMS said people using verbal abuse or threatening behaviour - non-physical assault - would be dealt with under a system of sanctions.
    • Women could not gauge other, non-physical factors, such as the person's charisma, from the picture.
    • Instead, compliment them on other things, perhaps on their non-physical qualities.
    • However, what is so unique about this method is that it includes intuition, and every massage is given differently because the practitioner is intuitively sensing their client's physical and non-physical clues.
    • This part consists of six sections, reflecting and emphasising the breadth of available non-physical interventions.
    Synonyms
    intangible, impalpable, non-material
  • 2Not tangible or concrete.

    不可触摸的;不具体的

    non-physical digital money
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mathematicians, most of whom act as Platonists, believe that mathematics is an actual ideal non-physical realm that lies behind our familiar reality of objects.
    • The second is that the interaction between non-physical mind and physical body breaks some law of physics: it is because of something to do with the physical, with physical law, that the problem arises.
    • Some believe it is non-physical and that it can be separated from the body.
    • Healthcare hardware and nuclear reactors fall into this category, but he expands his scope to show how non-physical aspects become integral to the entire design.
    • It seems here to amount to the claim that things like consciousness, agency and free will are real - though non-physical - and that they are, in principle, beyond scientific, or at least mechanistic, explanation.
    • Taken from another perspective we have to look at trade in the non-tangible and non-physical sense, it's all in the creation of value added in a digital economy.
    • This is not an abstract non-physical entity, but a physical expression in the design of our brains, of genes that have evolved over millions of years.
    • Having assembled all his evidence, he devotes the closing sections to a discussion of what evidence ghosts offer for the existence of a non-physical self, for survival after death, for the nature of time and reality.
    • There are non-physical entities known as angels.
    • Now, if I go back to magic as ‘the apparently acausal connection between intent or will and results,’ I find that this is no different a claim than some make about every act my non-physical mind has on the physical world.
    • Quite aside from these difficulties, Cartesians are as much in the dark about how non-physical things manage to think and feel as their opponents are about how physical things can do so.
    • Recall that, for Godel, mathematical intuition represents some sort of relationship between humans and the non-physical, mathematical realm.
    • Some philosophers have, in the past, leaped from this sort of consideration to what they take to be a proof that the mind is essentially non-physical in nature.
    • Descartes' position, called substance dualism, has raised fundamental questions about how a non-physical mind could have an effect on a physical body.
    Synonyms
    impalpable, untouchable, imperceptible to the touch, bodiless, incorporeal, unembodied, disembodied, abstract, invisible

Derivatives

  • non-physically

  • adverb
    • The odds of reporting higher levels of past month marijuana use for physically abused youth were 56% greater than the odds for non-physically abused youth, other things being equal.
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