Apparitional vs Ethereal - What's the difference?
apparitional | ethereal | Related terms |
Of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly; immaterial; spectral.
* 1908 , , "The Jolly Corner," ch. 2,
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
* 1667 : , Paradise Lost , book VII
* 1862 : ,
Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
* 1733 : ,
Delicate, light and airy.
Apparitional is a related term of ethereal.
As adjectives the difference between apparitional and ethereal
is that apparitional is of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly; immaterial; spectral while ethereal is pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.apparitional
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Adjective
(en adjective)- People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror?
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Alternative forms
* aethereal * aetherial * * (obsolete) * * (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.
Walking.
- I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal , as our sky,...
An Essay on Man
- Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal , human, angel, man.