[HiTech RedNeck]

Yeah, that’s a word I learned before I was born-again redneck and just a smarty pants.

It means gone pale (like a leaf for lack of sunlight). And living in spiritual shadow does that, figuratively.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah but it is spelled etiolated (you were close enough though 8>):

pale and drawn out due to a lack of light.

having lost vigor or substance; feeble