ethereal vs transcendental

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. 

transcendental

adj
  • Mystical or supernatural. 

  • Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience. 

  • That contains elements that are not algebraic. 

  • Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients). 

  • Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent. 

noun
  • Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics. 

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