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metethereal

metethereal adjective: lying beyond the ether, in the spiritual, transcendent realm where the soul is held to exist in certain spiritual or spiritualist theories.

Adjective

metethereal (not comparable)

  1. Lying beyond the ether, in the spiritual, transcendent realm where the soul is held to exist in certain spiritual or spiritualist theories.
    • But for our minds there must needs be 'a critical point' in any such imagined continuity; so that the world where life and thought are carried on apart from matter, must certainly rank again as a new, a metethereal environment.1904, Viscount [Richard] Haldane, The Pathway to Reality, London: John Murray, page 583

Origin of metethereal

From meta- + ethereal.

Questions about metethereal

What does metethereal mean?
Metethereal means lying beyond the ether, in the spiritual, transcendent realm where the soul is held to exist in certain spiritual or spiritualist theories.
What part of speech is metethereal?
Metethereal is an adjective.

Words near metethereal in the dictionary

  1. metes out
  2. metescufylline
  3. metest
  4. metestrus
  5. meteth
  6. metethereal
  7. metethoheptazine
  8. metewand
  9. metewands
  10. meteyard
  11. meteyards

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