Definition of "etherial" []

• Archaic form of ethereal. (adjective)

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• "I cannot help feeling that, with mathematics, the case for believing in some kind of etherial, eternal existence, at least for the more profound mathematical concepts, is a good deal stronger than in those other cases."
• "She has this strongly intangible vocal style -- it doesn't sound like anything you've encountered before yet utterly familiar and no not because you've seen Good Will Hunting, I kind of etherial Jewel Kilcher."
• "Some examples follow below, from the quadrilingual Dutch work of the period, Moderne Kerken in Europe en America, which also includes some strange Central European and French monstrosities, not shown here -- though I admit a secret fondness for the etherial openness of Perret's Notre Dame du Raincy, just not all that exposed concrete."