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apparition
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun apparition has 4 senses
- apparition(n = noun.person) fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" is a kind of disembodied spirit, spirit
- apparition(n = noun.event) Array - the appearance of a ghostlike figure; "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter" is a kind of appearance
- apparition(n = noun.cognition) fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" has particulars: flying saucer, ufo, unidentified flying object, flying dutchman, ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith
- apparition(n = noun.act) Array - an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger" is a kind of appearance
has particulars: flying dutchman
is a kind of illusion, semblance
Derived forms verb appear2, verb appear5
CIDE DICTIONARY
apparition, n. [F. apparition, L. apparitio, fr. apparere. See Appear.].
- The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton. [1913 Webster]"The sudden apparition of the Spaniards." [1913 Webster]"The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world." [1913 Webster]
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. [1913 Webster]"Which apparition, it seems, was you." [1913 Webster]
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. Milton. [1913 Webster]"I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition." [1913 Webster] - The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to
occultation . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
apparition, n. a sudden or dramatic appearance, esp. of a ghost or phantom; a visible ghost.
Etymology
ME f. F apparition or f. L apparitio attendance (as APPEAR)
THESAURUS
apparition
Masan, appearance, appearing, arising, astral, astral spirit, avatar, banshee, bogey, brainchild, bubble, chimera, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, control, corposant, delirium, delusion, departed spirit, disclosure, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, emergence, epiphany, exposure, false image, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, figure, form, forthcoming, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hallucination, hant, haunt, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, image, imagery, imagination, imagining, immateriality, incarnation, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, insubstantial image, invention, issuance, larva, lemures, maggot, make-believe, manes, manifestation, marshfire, materialization, materializing, mirage, myth, occurrence, oni, opening, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, phasm, phenomenon, poltergeist, presence, presentation, realization, revelation, revenant, rise, rising, romance, shade, shadow, shape, showing, showing forth, shrouded spirit, sick fancy, specter, spectral ghost, spectrum, spirit, spook, sprite, theophany, thick-coming fancies, trip, umbra, unfolding, unfoldment, unsubstantiality, vapor, vision, waking dream, walking dead man, wandering soul, whim, whimsy, wildest dream, wildest dreams, wraith, zombieROGET THESAURUS
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Demon
N demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.Dimsightedness
N dimsightedness, dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight, dimsightedness, purblindness, lippitude, myopia, presbyopia, confusion of vision, astigmatism, color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis, Daltonism, nyctalopia, strabismus, strabism, squint, blearedness, day blindness, hemeralopia, nystagmus, xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia, cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes, obliquity of vision, winking, nictitation, blinkard, albino, dizziness, swimming, scotomy, cataract, ophthalmia, blinker, screen, deceptio visus, refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, vision, specter, apparition, ghost, ignis fatuus, specter of the Brocken, magic mirror, magic lantern, mirror lens, dim-sighted, myopic, presbyopic, astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed, blind of one eye, monoculous, half-blind, purblind, cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole- eyed, dichroic, blind as a bat, winking.
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