Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being ethereal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Ethereality.
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- noun The state or quality of being
ethereal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other than my hand sticking through him, the only sign of his etherealness was a gentle blurring at the edge of his body.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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Other than my hand sticking through him, the only sign of his etherealness was a gentle blurring at the edge of his body.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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But just as much in reality Polly could not hold a candle to Flower, for she had a sort of a languorous, slumberous, grace, which exactly suited her name; there was a kind of etherealness about her, an absolutely out-of-the-common look, which made people glance at her again and again, each time to discover how very lovely she was.
Polly A New-Fashioned Girl L. T. Meade 1884
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You want as little as you can get away with to guarantee that seductive, melt-on-the tongue, quivering etherealness, rather than the feelingof chewing on cheap sweets.
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I am just not sure these two elements should have been combined: the depth of the pork and the etherealness of its bun seemed to be of such different worlds that they may need not have met.
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I am just not sure these two elements should have been combined: the depth of the pork and the etherealness of its bun seemed to be of such different worlds that they may need not have met.
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I am just not sure these two elements should have been combined: the depth of the pork and the etherealness of its bun seemed to be of such different worlds that they may need not have met.
Augieland: 2006
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There was an etherealness about her that instantly engendered in the dragon a notable urge to touch the globe.
The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993
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Sounds drift up to him, given an eerie etherealness by the closed curtains.
beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980
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He helped her off with her coat and overboots, detecting as he did so the smell of the white wine she liked to drink with oysters (in spite of her etherealness she ate and drank a great deal).
The Darling and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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