Both Uses of
ethereal
in
Me Before You
- But tonight, under a full moon, it seemed flooded in an ethereal blue.†
p. 184.5 *
- Alicia, floating around the garden—an ethereal vision, air-kissing and exclaiming—didn't approach us.†
p. 287.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(ethereal) characterized by an air-like insubstantiality
or:
so delicate and insubstantial that it barely seems of this world -- often beautiful -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, but seen in older writings, ethereal can mean "heavenly or celestial" -- as when Milton writes of an "ethereal messenger" in Paradise Lost. Similarly, it can mean "unworldly" or "spiritual".
In chemistry, there is a specialized meaning: "of or related to the chemical, ether"