Soul vs. Soulless — 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.

(especially of a place) lacking character and individuality

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

Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling.

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

Not amenable to or reflecting concern for humane values

The essence or embodiment of a specified quality

As if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling.

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.

Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling

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 human

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

A person's emotional or moral nature

The central or integral part; the vital core

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.

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

Soul music.

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 spirit or essence of anything.

Life, energy, vigor.

(music) Soul music.

A person, especially as one among many.

An individual life.

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

To endow with a soul or mind.

To beg on All Soul's Day.

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

Sole.

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

To afford suitable sustenance.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

A pure or disembodied spirit.

A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.

Soul music.

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

A human being;

Deep feeling or emotion

The human embodiment of something;

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