The difference between Ethereal and Transcendental
When used as adjectives, ethereal means pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere, whereas transcendental means concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
Transcendental is also noun with the meaning: a transcendentalist.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ethereal and Transcendental
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Ethereal as an adjective:
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly.
Examples:
"usex ethereal space"
"usex ethereal regions"
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Ethereal as an adjective:
Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
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Ethereal as an adjective:
Delicate, light and airy.
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Ethereal as an adjective:
(chemistry) To do with ether.
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Transcendental as a noun (obsolete):
A transcendentalist.
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Transcendental as a noun (philosophy, metaphysics, Platonism, Christian theology, usually plural):
Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.
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Transcendental as an adjective (philosophy):
Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
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Transcendental as an adjective:
Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
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Transcendental as an adjective:
Mystical or supernatural.
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Transcendental as an adjective (algebra, number theory, field theory, of a [[number]] or an [[element]] of an [[extension field]]):
Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
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Transcendental as an adjective (algebra, field theory, of an [[extension field]]):
That contains elements that are not algebraic.