intangible

The expression was born from a desire to designate an intangible feeling, similar to the sense one gets deep in one's stomach watching something Lynch made.

In “Presence,” the fleeting traces of connection between parents and their children are as obvious yet intangible as any ghost.

I have learned in the past few days that intangible losses, while no match for the tangible ones, can nonetheless stick deeply in the throat.

An intangible energy drifted in the air, like it does in places that become counterculture touchstones.

As James Baldwin wrote, “Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”