Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being ethereal; ethereality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Ethereality.
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- noun The condition of being
ethereal ;ethereality
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Examples
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Perfection is seen in strength, not in weakness, in virility and not in tears, in majesty, the majesty truly of meekness, but not of a maudlin, mooning etherealism.
Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals Henry Frederick Cope 1896
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The very utmost homage that esteem, admiration, affection could give, was his; but that mysterious passion called by the name of love (and which, as I truly and heartily believe, can not, in its refined etherealism, be known to many of us) had not been given to him.
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The very utmost homage that esteem, admiration, affection could give was his, but that mysterious passion called by the name of love, and which, as I truly and heartily believe, cannot, in its refined etherealism, be known to many of us, had not been given to him.
East Lynne Henry Wood 1850
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Lead vocalist ES Pitcher provides The New Up's greatest distinction, offering accessible feminine soul with a dulcet etherealism -- something along the lines of a Deborah Harry for a new millennium.
ScrippsNews 2009
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