ethereal
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Sentience had its limitations; so why sleep seemed like a jammed clock for a few seconds, a wave for a few more, and then an edge of a cliff, a precipice, that intersected with the ethereal was as insoluble as why man in all this impermanence could master his fears enough to go out and forge his destiny.
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- adjective Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.
- adjective Highly refined; delicate. See Synonyms at airy.
- adjective Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.
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- In the darkness her pale skin looked ethereal, and he found himself picturing what it would feel like to lightly trace the outline of her cheek. — Message in a Bottle
- The melody that rose from the duar was light and ethereal, alien, atonal, and yet full of almost familiar rhythms. — The Hour of the Gate
- One day someone would try to convince me that you cannot see the sea from the Corachan Clinic; that its rooms are not white or ethereal, and that the sea that November was like a leaden pond, cold and hostile; that it went on snowing every day of that week until all of Barcelona was buried in three feet of snow, and that even Fermin, the eternal optimist, thought I was going to die again. — The Shadow of the Wind
- - but they were mysterious, ethereal, and she felt her face bead with water drops. — The Lake House
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Sentience had its limitations; so why sleep seemed like a jammed clock for a few seconds, a wave for a few more, and then an edge of a cliff, a precipice, that intersected with the ethereal was as insoluble as why man in all this impermanence could master his fears enough to go out and forge his destiny.
— An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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- From Latin aetherius, from Greek aitherios, from aithēr, upper air.
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/ (ĭ-thîrˈē-əl)/
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