mittefüüsilist

Mittefüüsiline is an Estonian adjective meaning non-physical or immaterial. It describes phenomena, properties, or entities that are not physical in the sense of matter or energy. The term is commonly used in philosophical, theological, or cognitive contexts to contrast with physical phenomena.

It is built from the prefix mitte- meaning not or non- and füüsiline meaning physical. The form mittefüüsilist is the partitive singular of the adjective, used when the noun it modifies is in partitive: e.g., mittefüüsilist omadust (a non-physical property).

Examples include discussions of mind, consciousness, or spiritual entities that are regarded as immaterial, or abstractions like information or value argued as non-physical in some theories, though debates exist about whether information has a physical substrate. In everyday language, mittefüüsiline may be used metaphorically to denote intangible aspects such as emotions, ideas, or experiences.

Some contexts distinguish between immaterial versus non-physical, but in Estonian mittefüüsiline often overlaps with intangible or spiritual meanings. The term is primarily encountered in formal writing rather than colloquial speech.