ethereal
adjective
light, airy, or tenuous.
ethereality
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a word derived from
ethereal.
Example Sentences
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“Usually, shows of his work focus on his ethereality, like the ‘Monochromes’” — Klein’s single-color canvases — “but his show is anchored in the materiality and the tangible.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
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
There was, besides, an elusiveness and an ethereality about him—as Carlyle expressed it—“a fine tricksy medium between the poet and the wit, half a sylph and half an Ariel ... a fairy fluctuating bark.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
