English

Noun

luftmensch ‎(plural luftmenschen)

1. One more concerned with airy intellectual pursuits than practical matters like earning an income.

   My wife is such a luftmensch she missed our anniversary dinner because she was too busy reading her books!

   • McLean, Helen. "Marc of Distinction." The Globe and Mail: Books. March 24, 2007, p.D6 (reviewing the book Marc Chagall by Jonathan Wilson)

     "Chagall was a luftmensch, he says, a man of the air..."