etheric

English

Alternative forms

• aetheric
• ætheric

Etymology

From ether +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪk

Adjective

etheric (comparative more etheric, superlative most etheric)

1. Of or pertaining to the ether (all-pervading medium); composed of ether; inhabiting the ether.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "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."

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 229:

     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[.]

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:

     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.

Derived terms

• subetheric

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “etheric”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• chierte, erethic, heretic, heteric, techier