Made light, airy, or spiritual in nature; removed material or earthly qualities from.
Past tense of etherealize, with American -ize spelling plus -ed ending. Created from ethereal using productive verb-forming suffixes.
When you etherealize something in literature or art, you're doing what Romantic poets did — taking something ordinary and treating it as if it were touched by heaven or dream, like how Keats transformed a nightingale into something transcendent.
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