Noun

(organic compound, countable) A compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.

(organic compound, uncountable) Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), a compound used as an early anaesthetic.

(ancient philosophy, and, alchemy, uncountable) A classical physical element, considered as prevalent in the heavens and inaccessible to humans. In some versions of alchemy, this was the fifth element in addition to air, earth, fire and water.

(archaic, physics, uncountable) A substance (aether ) once thought to fill all space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy (disproved by Einstein in his Theory of Relativity).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

The sky or heavens; the upper air.

Noun

(en noun)

A person addicted to ether intoxication

* 1971 Paul Van Ostaijen, Patriotism, Inc and Other Tales , Univ of Massachusetts Press, p137

You can clearly see that a dancer etheromaniac , when she is high, has a different conception of space – it is much more expansive than usual.

* 1998 Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, p169

In another case an etheromaniac earl committed extravagances which, from a moral point of view, classified him among mental deficients.