ethereal vs gossamer

ethereal

adj
  • Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. 

  • Pertaining to the (real or hypothetical) upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere. 

  • To do with diethyl ether. 

  • Pertaining to the immaterial realm, as symbolically represented by, or (in earlier epochs) conflated with, such atmospheric and extra-atmospheric concepts. 

gossamer

adj
  • Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate. 

noun
  • Anything delicate, light and flimsy. 

  • A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc. 

  • A soft, sheer fabric. 

How often have the words ethereal and gossamer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )