etheric

adj
/iˈθɛɹ.ɪk/US

Etymology

From ether + -ic.

  1. derived from *h₂eydʰ-
  2. derived from αἰθήρ
  3. derived from aethēr
  4. derived from aethēr
  5. derived from aether
  6. derived from ether
  7. derived from ether
  8. inherited from ēther
  9. suffixed as etheric — “ether + ic

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the ether (all-pervading medium)

    Of or pertaining to the ether (all-pervading medium); composed of ether; inhabiting the ether.

    • "It is usually allowed that there is the natural body, as St. Paul called it, which is dissolved at death, and the etheric or spiritual body which survives and functions upon an etheric plane."
    • Most commonly spirit beings appear in their etheric bodies, but there are many accounts of these old sorcerers calling up spirits in their fleshly bodies[.]
    • In the etheric body of a yogini in meditation, the polarity is, therefore, not between the brain and the genitals, the second and sixth chakras, but between the inner sexuality of the womb and the heart.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for etheric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA