What is another word for apparitions?

Pronunciation: [ˌapəɹˈɪʃənz] (IPA)

The word "apparitions" refers to supernatural visions or ghostly sightings. There are several synonyms for this word, including specter, phantom, ghost, spirit, and wraith. Other related words that could be considered synonyms include manifestation, appearance, and vision. Apparitions are often associated with hauntings or mysterious occurrences, and can be a source of fear or fascination for many people. Whether real or imagined, they are a common theme in literature, film, and folklore. Understanding the various synonyms for this word can help you to better appreciate the nuances of language and the way that words can evoke different emotions and ideas.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Apparitions

They believe in second sight, in apparitions, charms, witchcraft, and in a kind of irresistible Satanic influence.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
The calmer he became the more was he inclined to accept this explanation of the apparitions; such was infinitely more comforting to him than the conception that they had been in truth spirits from ghostland.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
In anxious quest of any link of sympathy between this world and the next, Maximus tries to fortify his doctrine of daemons by stories of apparitions.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill

Famous quotes with Apparitions

  • The projected form does make some impression upon the physical system. It is possible for it to be detected. It is a kind of pseudo-image, materialistically speaking, but it has definite electromagnetic reality and chemical properties. Animals have sensed such apparitions. They react to the chemical properties and build up [the perception] from these. These chemical properties are more diffused in such an apparition than in a physical form, however.
    Jane Roberts
  • How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong,— Like angels’ visits, short and bright; Mortality ’s too weak to bear them long.
    John Norris
  • Dada; knowledge of all the means rejected up until now.. . Dada; abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: Dada; of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: Dada; every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada; abolition of memory: Dada; abolition of archaeology: Dada; abolition of prophets: Dada; abolition of the future: Dada; absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity:* Dada; elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere... Freedom: Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.
    Tristan Tzara

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