ethereal
adjective
light, airy, or tenuous.
ethereality
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a word derived from
ethereal.
Example Sentences
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It’s a well-preserved painting with that strange cocktail of precision and ethereality that makes Botticelli so captivating.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2020
But most of the vaulted lobby will be clad in smooth white plaster, maximizing its lightness and ethereality and creating the sense of entering a cloud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2020
These laws feel like a way of embracing the malleability and ethereality of fiction, even as the natural-science framing evokes the world of fact.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2019
Mr. Zorn’s idiom of juxtaposed dissonance and ethereality threatened to become too familiar by the end of Wednesday’s program, on a Miller stage that regularly presents work by a newer avant-garde.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2015
The gas-light from the hall laid a broad orange path to the steps—Cora and her companion sat just beyond it, his whiteness gray, and she a pale ethereality in the shadow.
From The Flirt by Booth Tarkington
