etherealize

American  

[ih-theer-ee-uh-lahyz] / ɪˈθɪər i əˌlaɪz /

especially British, etherealise

verb (used with object)

etherealized, etherealizing

1. to make ethereal.

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etherealize British  

/ ɪˈθɪərɪəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make or regard as being ethereal

2. to add ether to or make into ether or something resembling ether

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Other Word Forms

• etherealization
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of etherealize

First recorded in 1820–30; ethereal + -ize

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Example Sentences

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etherealize etherealized etherealizing

She would seek to improve on Nature's handiwork; she would etherealize it, make it so dainty that it would become poetry instead of the beautiful plain language the universal mother sometimes speaks.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick

Angels, as some represent them, even in whole lengths, are by anatomists regarded as monsters; but what then are the chubby winged heads without bodies, with which some artists etherealize their works.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various

Study Perugino and Raphael, see how they raise human nature and etherealize it till we see the divinity of soul in the faces of their saints and martyrs.

From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick

We shall not have to wait long for the answer to a question which has stirred the heart of mankind to its foundations—can Women etherealize society?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

At midnight few scenes could be more calm and beautiful, so tenderly did the light of the moon soften and etherealize everything.

From His Sombre Rivals by Edward Payson Roe

They were etherealized through delicate pastels, and while Brundage created images to appeal to the male gaze, she also could portray women as purposeful agents rather than passive victims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The far more important part of the indivisible phrase 'war peace aims' is still etherealized in the Atlantic Charter.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would alter abstract painting itself, since his preoccupation with surge and flow got across to Pollock and, much etherealized, led to Pollock's invention of "all-over" abstraction.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patrick O'Neal's Shannon seems half eaten away by the termites of moral corruption, and Margaret Leighton's Hannah is an etherealized vision of grace and gravity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The day’s heat diminished; the shadows lengthened; the sea ran more and more gently; and the light of late afternoon deepened to etherealized amber.

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

While the paintings represent chic, modern women who belong to a world of elegance and luxury, they also have the effect of exoticizing and etherealizing their subjects.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2016

Much as he might have liked to strip down to bare revelations, Meredith, a tailor's son to the end, settled for a costume change, etherealizing passion and abstracting love into a distant, chaste project.

From Time Magazine Archive

A conflagration raging near now began to flame so high that its lights flickered on the girl's face, etherealizing its beauty, and turning her fluffy hair to gold.

From The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe

And he was the son of a poet with an admirable gift of individualising, of etherealizing the common-place; of making touching, delicate, fascinating the most hopeless conventions of the, so-called, refined existence.

From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

It has been said, consumption sublimates the mind, stealing from the body, etherealizing and intensifying the intellect.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks

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