Noumenal vs Ethereal - What's the difference?
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(philosophy, especially Kantianism) Of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves.
*1878 , James Sully, "The Question of Visual Perception in Germany," Mind , vol. 3, no. 10, p. 193,
*:We may here distinguish between two kinds of reality, phenomenal or relative, and noumenal or absolute.
*2003 , Jay Garfield and Graham Priest, "N?g?rjuna and the Limits of Thought," Philosophy East and West , vol. 53, no. 1, p. 3,
*:When Kant says that it is impossible to know anything about, or apply any categories to, the noumenal realm, he would seem to be doing just what cannot be done.
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.
As adjectives the difference between noumenal and ethereal
is that noumenal is of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves 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.noumenal
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* phenomenalethereal
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* 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.