— ethereality, etherealness , n. — ethereally , adv. — ethereous , adj.
/i thear"ee euhl/ , adj.
1. light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
2. extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
3. heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.
4. of or pertaining to the upper regions of space.
5. Chem. pertaining to, containing, or resembling ethyl ether.
Also, aethereal (for defs. 1-4).
[ 1505-15; aethere ( us ) ( aithérios ), equiv. to aether- ETHER + -eus adj. suffix + -AL 1 ]