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ætheric

ætheric is the obsolete form of etheric.

Meaning of etheric

Adjective

etheric (comparative more etheric, superlative most etheric)

  1. 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."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
    Synonyms:
    aethereal, ethereal

Forms of ætheric

comparativemore ætheric
superlativemost ætheric

Origin of ætheric

From æther + -ic.

Questions about ætheric

What is ætheric the obsolete form of?
Ætheric is the obsolete form of etheric.

Words near ætheric in the dictionary

  1. æther waves
  2. æthereal
  3. æthereall
  4. ætherial
  5. ætheriall
  6. ætheric
  7. æthers
  8. Æthiop
  9. Æthiopia
  10. Æthiopian
  11. Æthiopians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ætheric (page history and authors); etheric (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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