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Aether vs Empyrean - What's the difference?

aether | empyrean |

As nouns the difference between aether and empyrean

is that aether is an alternative spelling of lang=en while empyrean is the region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy.

As a proper noun Aether

is one of the Greek primordial deities, who was the personification of the upper air of the gods. His parents of Erebus and Nyx, and his sister-wife is Hemera/Dies.

As an adjective empyrean is

of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined.

aether

English

(wikipedia aether)

Noun

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    empyrean

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The region of pure light and fire; the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to exist: the same as the ether, the ninth heaven according to ancient astronomy.
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  • So sung they, and the Empyrean rung, / With Halleluiahs:
  • * 1863 , , Experiments in Quantity
  • the deep-domed empyrean / Rings to the roar of an angel onset
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  • The very empyrean seemed to be a secret.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of the sky or the heavens; celestially refined
  • * 1667 , , Annus Mirabilis
  • In th’empyrean heaven, the bless’d abode, / The Thrones and the Dominions prostrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God.
  • * 1700 , , Carmen Saeculare
  • Yet upward she [the goddess] incessant flies; / Resolv’d to reach the high empyrean Sphere.
  • * 1818 ,
  • Lispings empyrean will ii sometimes teach / Thine honeyed tongue.

    Synonyms

    * empyreal

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