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ethereality

/ih-theer-ee-uhl/US // ɪˈθɪər i əl //UK // (ɪˈθɪərɪəl) //

空灵,空灵性,虚无缥缈,虚无飘渺

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
    • : extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
    • : heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.
    • : of or relating to the upper regions of space.
    • : Chemistry. pertaining to, containing, or resembling ether.

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Examples

  • The music should be stately, sophisticated—bold enough to assert its power yet delicate enough to revel in its ethereality.

  • The bird symbol involved the conception of ethereality or spirituality.

  • For all its ethereality and remoteness, it yearns, "like a God in pain," over the sorrows of the world.