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aethered

aethered adjective: containing luminiferous aether.

Adjective

aethered (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Containing luminiferous aether.
    • […] but certainly aether is not a structure made of matter. This introduction of a suprasensual aethered medium, which is not the same as matter, may of course be described as leaving reality behind us: […]1974, Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky, Methodological and Historical Essays in the Natural and Social Sciences

Origin of aethered

From aether + -ed.

Questions about aethered

What does aethered mean?
Aethered means containing luminiferous aether.
What part of speech is aethered?
Aethered is an adjective.

Words near aethered in the dictionary

  1. aetheogams
  2. aether
  3. aether wave
  4. aether waves
  5. aethereal
  6. aethered
  7. Aetheria
  8. aetherial
  9. aetherially
  10. aetheric
  11. aetherometric

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