'apparition' definitions:
Definition of 'apparition'
From: WordNet
noun
A ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre]
noun
The appearance of a ghostlike figure; "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter"
noun
Something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow]
noun
An act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"
Synonyms of 'apparition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Masan,
- 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,
- zombie