astral plane
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A supernatural plane of existence consisting of the world of the celestial spheres, propounded by esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings, and New Age thought.
Example Sentences
- "Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts."
- "The realm of the astral plane is an intermediate realm; below is the world of matter, above is the world of pure Being."
- "Emoji are in the astral plane."
- "If your application works with MathML, or in various languages whose character sets gained support in Unicode 3.1 through the so-called Astral Planes, you will need to know that what Java calls a char is not really the same thing as a Unicode character or an XML character."
- "The answer was UTF-16. Two blocks of 16-bit values were set aside for use as special values for encoding astral plane characters."
- "UTF-16 encodes every character from O—65535 as 2 bytes; it then uses some dirty hacks if you actually need to represent the rarely used astral plane Unicode characters beyond 65535."
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Synonyms
astral world
desire world