Corporeal vs. Ethereal

Corporealadjective

Material; tangible; physical.

Etherealadjective

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

‘ethereal space’; ‘ethereal regions’;

Corporealadjective

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

Etherealadjective

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

Corporealadjective

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

‘His omnipotenceThat to corporeal substance could addSpeed almost spiritual.’;

Etherealadjective

Delicate, light and airy.

Corporealadjective

having material or physical form or substance;

‘that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible’;

Etherealadjective

(chemistry) To do with ether.

Corporealadjective

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

‘bodily needs’; ‘a corporal defect’; ‘corporeal suffering’; ‘a somatic symptom or somatic illness’;

Etherealadjective

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.

‘Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.’;

Corporealadjective

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

‘he was frank about his corporeal appetites’;

Etherealadjective

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

‘Vast chain of being, which from God began,Natures ethereal, human, angel, man.’;

Corporealadjective

having a body

‘a corporeal God’;

Etherealadjective

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

Corporealadjective

consisting of material objects

‘in Scotland ‘goods’ includes all corporeal movables except money’;

Etherealadjective

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

‘figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away’; ‘aerial fancies’; ‘an airy apparition’; ‘physical rather than ethereal forms’;

Etherealadjective

of or containing or dissolved in ether;

‘ethereal solution’;

Etherealadjective

of heaven or the spirit;

‘celestial peace’; ‘ethereal melodies’; ‘the supernal happiness of a quiet death’;

Etherealadjective

characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy;

‘this smallest and most ethereal of birds’; ‘gossamer shading through his playing’;

Etherealadjective

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

‘her ethereal beauty’;

Etherealadjective

heavenly or spiritual

‘ethereal, otherworldly visions’;

Etherealadjective

(of a solution) having diethyl ether as a solvent

‘sodium is dissolved in ethereal solutions of aromatic ketones’;