How to say "spiritual" in Japanese

• 精神的せいしんてきCommon
  na-adjectiveCovers 'spiritual' in the sense of mental or emotional: relating to the mind and feelings rather than the body, as in spiritual strain, suffering, or support. The natural choice for such inner, psychological matters.
  彼かれの病気びょうきは主おもに精神的せいしんてきな物ものだった。↗

  His illness was mainly psychological.
• 無形むけいCommon
  no-adjectiveMeans formless, immaterial, intangible: lacking physical substance or shape. It matches 'spiritual' only in the sense of incorporeal — non-physical rather than mental or emotional — and is seldom the word for spiritual feelings or experience.

Use 精神的 for 'spiritual' meaning mental or emotional — matters of the mind as opposed to the body. 無形 means immaterial or intangible, and fits 'spiritual' only in the sense of incorporeal, lacking physical form.

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• 精神的せいしんてきmental
• 無形むけいformless
• 霊的れいてきspiritual
• スピリチュアルspiritual
• スピ系スピけいspiritual (person)
• 霊歌れいかspiritual (religious song)
• 信仰的しんこうてきreligious
• 宗教上しゅうきょうじょうreligious
• 宗教的しゅうきょうてきreligious