apparition
noun
[ apəˈrɪʃ(ə)n ]
• a ghost or ghostlike image of a person.
• "a headless apparition"
Similar:
ghost,
phantom,
spectre,
spirit,
wraith,
shadow,
presence,
vision,
hallucination,
bodach,
Doppelgänger,
duppy,
spook,
phantasm,
shade,
revenant,
visitant,
wight,
eidolon,
manes,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘the action of appearing’): from Latin apparitio(n- ) ‘attendance’, from the verb apparere (see appear).
