What is the meaning of ethereal?

Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air.
- usage: "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
- synonyms: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery
Of or containing or dissolved in ether.
- usage: "ethereal solution"
Of heaven or the spirit.
- usage: "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
- synonyms: celestial, supernal
Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy.
- usage: "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
- synonyms: gossamer

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