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Synonyms for apparition
ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ənap·pari·tion

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Wiktionary2.0 / 1 vote

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. apparitionnoun

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. apparitionnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  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.


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