Soul vs. Body — What's the Difference?

In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf.

The physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal

The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.

The main section of a motor vehicle or aircraft

Emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

The main or central part of something, especially a building or text

The essence or embodiment of a specified quality

A large amount or collection of something

A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

A material object

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

A full or substantial quality of flavour in wine

In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).

A woman's close-fitting stretch garment for the upper body, fastening at the crotch.

A human

(in pottery) a clay used for making the main part of ceramic ware, as distinct from a glaze.

A person considered as the embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification

Give material form to something abstract

A person's emotional or moral nature

Build the bodywork of (a motor vehicle)

The central or integral part; the vital core

The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or other animal.

A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.

The physical aspect of a person as opposed to the spirit; the flesh.

Strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, performer, or artist

A corpse or carcass.

Soul music.

The trunk or torso of a human or animal.

The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.

The part of a garment covering the torso.

The spirit or essence of anything.

A human; a person

Life, energy, vigor.

A group of individuals regarded as an entity; a corporation.

(music) Soul music.

A number of persons, concepts, or things regarded as a group

A person, especially as one among many.

(Anatomy) The largest or principal part of an organ; corpus.

An individual life.

The nave of a church.

(math) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.

To endow with a soul or mind.

The passenger- and cargo-carrying part of an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle.

To beg on All Soul's Day.

(Music) The sound box of an instrument.

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

A mass of matter that is distinct from other masses

Sole.

A collection or quantity, as of material or information

By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.

Consistency of substance, as in paint, textiles, or wine

To afford suitable sustenance.

(Printing) The part of a block of type underlying the impression surface.

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

To furnish with a body.

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; - sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; - sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; - sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

To give shape to. Usually used with forth

The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

To play defense with one's body up against (that of another player) so as to restrict the player's mobility, as in basketball.

The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

To collide with and force (another player) in a certain direction

Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

Physical frame.

A human being; a person; - a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.

A pure or disembodied spirit.

The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.

A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.

A corpse.

Soul music.

A person.

The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

(sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.

A human being;

Main section.

Deep feeling or emotion

The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).

The human embodiment of something;

The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.

A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s;

(archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.

The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.

A bodysuit.

(programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.

A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.

An organisation, company or other authoritative group.

A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.

Material entity.

Any physical object or material thing.

(uncountable) Substance; physical presence.

(uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).

An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.

(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).

(geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

To give body or shape to something.

To construct the bodywork of a car.

(transitive) To embody.

To murder someone.

To utterly defeat someone.

To hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

A person; a human being; - frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.

A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.

A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aëriform body.

Amount; quantity; extent.

That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aërocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage.

To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

The entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being);

Body of a dead animal or person;

A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity;

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs;

An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects;

A collection of particulars considered as a system;

The external structure of a vehicle;

The property of holding together and retaining its shape;

The central message of a communication;

Invest with or as with a body; give body to