Corporeal vs. Ethereal — What's the Difference?

Relating to a person's body, especially as opposed to their spirit

Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the body.

(of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent

Existing or manifesting in bodily form.

Extremely light or delicate

Of a material nature; tangible

Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.

Material; tangible; physical.

Spiritual or otherworldly.

(archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.

(Chemistry) Of or relating to ether.

Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; - opposed to spiritual or immaterial.

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

Having material or physical form or substance;

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

Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit;

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

(organic chemistry) To do with diethyl ether.

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.

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

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.

Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air;

Of or containing or dissolved in ether;

Of heaven or the spirit;

Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy;