A philosophical or artistic belief that emphasizes spiritual, heavenly, or immaterial qualities over physical reality.
From ethereal plus -ism (a suffix meaning doctrine or practice). Emerged in philosophical and artistic circles to describe movements focused on the immaterial and spiritual.
Etherealism connects to Romanticism and Spiritualism movements, where artists and writers deliberately tried to escape materialism and celebrate the invisible, emotional, and transcendent dimensions of experience.
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