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Ethereal vs Gauzy - What's the difference?

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Ethereal is a related term of gauzy.


As adjectives the difference between ethereal and gauzy

is that 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 while gauzy is having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy.

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

    gauzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy
  • figuratively light, giving the effect of haze

    • Quotations

    * 2003': Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be '''gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — ''The New Yorker , 14 July 2003