Synonyms for apparition
ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ənap·pari·tion

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1. apparitionnoun

   An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

   Synonyms:
   appearance

2. apparitionnoun

   The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.

   Which apparition, it seems, was you. --Tatler.

   Synonyms:
   appearance

3. apparitionnoun

   An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.

   Synonyms:
   appearance

4. apparitionnoun

   (Astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured;opposed to occultation.

   Synonyms:
   appearance

5. apparitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   vision

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1. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectrenoun

   a ghostly appearing figure

   "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"

   Synonyms:
   spook, phantasma, shade, phantasm, shadow, specter, ghost, fantasm, phantom, wraith, spectre

2. apparitionnoun

   the appearance of a ghostlike figure

   "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter"

   Synonyms:
   fantasm, spectre, shadow, specter, phantasm, phantom, phantasma

3. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadownoun

   something existing in perception only

   "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, darkness, trace, phantasm, shadow, specter, dark, shadower, tincture, fantasm, phantom, tail, vestige, spectre

4. apparitionnoun

   an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly

   "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"

   Synonyms:
   fantasm, spectre, shadow, specter, phantasm, phantom, phantasma

Matched Categories

1. • Appearance
   • Illusion
   • Spirit

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apparitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   ghost, spectre, phantom, phantasm, spirit, sprite, hobgoblin, shade, chimera, illusion, WRAITH, vision, preternatural appearance

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1. apparitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   specter, ghost, phantom, wraith, phantasm, illusion, chimera, shade

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1. List of paraphrases for "apparition":

   emergence, onset, appearance, ghost

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How to use apparition in a sentence?

1. William Wordsworth:

   She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.

2. Artist Leah Miriam Cooper:

   I ended up enjoying the apparition quality the candid images provided. I loved feeling as if they were ghosts in my own space. i always thought that it would be impossible to get to know them, but through this project I have.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been.