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Astral vs Ethereal - What's the difference?

astral | ethereal |

As adjectives the difference between astral and ethereal

is that astral is relating to or resembling the stars; starry 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.

astral

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
  • * Dryden
    • Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer.
  • (parapsychology, theosophy) Relating to a supposed supersensible substance taking the form of an aura discernible to certain gifted individuals.

    • Synonyms

    * (relating to stars) starly

    Derived terms

    * astral body * astrally * astral projection

    Related terms

    * astrologist * astrology * astronomer * astronomical * astronomically * astronomy * astrometry * astrophysics

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    ethereal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * aethereal * aetherial * * (obsolete) * * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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
    • Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.
  • * 1862 : , Walking .
    • I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal , as our sky,...
  • Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
  • * 1733 : , An Essay on Man
    • Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal , human, angel, man.
  • Delicate, light and airy.

    • Derived terms

    * ethereality * ethereally * etherealness * etherealization * etherealisation * etherealizing

    References

    * American English forms