[f. next + -ATION.] The action or process of etherealizing or making ethereal in various senses. Also concr.
1857. J. H. Stirling, trans. Schwegler’s Hist. Philos. (ed. 8), 115. He [Aristotle] conceives the moral element … as etherealization, spiritualization of the physical.
1873. Pater, Renaissance, iv. 53. The wasting and etherealisation of Death.
1886. Miss Braddon, One Thing Needful, xxii. She has dedicated herself to … the etherialisation of humanity.
