ethereal
adjective
light, airy, or tenuous.
ethereality
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a word derived from
ethereal.
Example Sentences
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There’s a sun-soaked, bohemian ethereality to that version of the decade, built both by retro revisionism and by the fact that a song like “Dreams” exists.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2020
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
Sublimate, as you will, the idea of our ethereality as intellectual beings; no sensible man can harbor a doubt, but that there is a vast deal of satisfaction in dining.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
