Angelic vs Otherworldly - What's the difference?
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Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a different world than that of the tangible here and now, such as a heavenly, spiritual, or imaginary world.
*1917 , , God, the Invisible King , ch. 5,
*:Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not otherworldly , must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.
*2007 , Clive Davis, "
*:Dana has the otherworldly temperament of a mystic.
Not belonging to the real world; unnatural; odd and unfamiliar.
*1919 , , Saint's Progress , ch. 7,
*:He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost otherworldly , with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices.
Angelic is a related term of otherworldly.
As adjectives the difference between angelic and otherworldly
is that angelic is angelic while otherworldly is of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a different world than that of the tangible here and now, such as a heavenly, spiritual, or imaginary world.angelic
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Alternative forms
* angelick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- an angelic ester
Synonyms
* angelical, angellike, angelly, heavenly, divineDerived terms
* angelicnessAnagrams
*otherworldly
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Adjective
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