Synonyms for atmosphere

Grammar : Noun

Spell : at-muh s-feer

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæt məsˌfɪər

Top 10 synonyms for atmosphere

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Définition of atmosphere

Origin : 1630s, atmosphaera (modern form from 1670s), from Modern Latin atmosphaera, from atmo-, comb. form of Greek atmos "vapor, steam" + spharia "sphere" (see sphere). Greek atmos is from PIE *awet-mo-, from root *wet- "to blow, inspire, spiritually arouse" (see wood (adj.)). First used in English in connection with the Moon, which, as it turns out, doesn't have one.
It is observed in the solary eclipses, that there is sometimes a great trepidation about the body of the moon, from which we may likewise argue an atmosphaera, since we cannot well conceive what so probable a cause there should be of such an appearance as this, Quod radii solares a vaporibus lunam ambitntibus fuerint intercisi, that the sun-beams were broken and refracted by the vapours that encompassed the moon. [Rev. John Wilkins, "Discovery of New World or Discourse tending to prove that it probable there may be another World in the Moon," 1638]
Figurative sense of "surrounding influence, mental or moral environment" is c.1800.

noun gases around the earth
noun general feeling or mood

Example sentences :

It was sultry, and there was something in the atmosphere that at once threatened and soothed.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Her woman's vanity blossomed deliciously in the atmosphere of a man's love.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

He had breathed into the atmosphere a subtle malaria, and George had caught the disease.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

They absorbed her atmosphere and after each followed a period of mental asphyxy.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

The campaigns of Napoleon, with their atmosphere of glory, illustrate this.
Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw

Meteorology deals with the atmosphere of the globe, in all its forms.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 » by Various

The bell continued to sound loud and clear in the great purity of the atmosphere.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

It was thus for Angelique an atmosphere of affection and love, in which she grew and thrived.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

The development of living ideals is not in an atmosphere of cynicism.
Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan

But it is offensive to man, insulting to the atmosphere, and destructive of him who uses it.
Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan

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