aethereal

British  

/ ɪˌθɪərɪˈælɪtɪ, ɪˈθɪərɪəl /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of ethereal ethereal ethereal

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Other Word Forms

• aethereality noun
• aethereally adverb

Example Sentences

And in the aethereal world of culture: The second season of Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul should be called Better Than Season One.

From Slate

This quinta essentia had been speculated upon by the Greeks, some regarding it as immaterial or aethereal, and others as material; and a school of philosophers termed alchemists arose who attempted the isolation of this essence.

From Project Gutenberg

Now it is to be confessed that there may be just as little poetry in the measurement of an aethereal undulation as in that of the river; for the intellect, during the acts of measurement and calculation, destroys those notions of size which appeal to the poetic sense.

From Project Gutenberg

Suppose aethereal waves striking upon atoms which oscillate in the same periods as the waves, the motion of the waves will be absorbed by the atoms; suppose we send our beam of white light through a sodium flame, the atoms of that flame will be chiefly affected by those undulations which are synchronous with their own periods of vibration.

From Project Gutenberg

The elastic forces which keep these atoms apart compel them to vibrate in definite periods, and, when these periods synchronise with those of the aethereal waves, the latter are absorbed.

From Project Gutenberg