apparition

Meaning

1. An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
4. The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
5. A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.

Synonyms

ghost

👻

phantom

spectre

spirit

specter

phantasm

monster

vision

phantasma

fantasm

wraith

goblin

appearance

shadow

demon

manifestation

spook

image

shape

epiphany

beast

sight

emergence

anima

reappearance

revelation

revenant

semblance

show

siren

soul

spectacle

👓

sprite

theophany

visitant

visitation

zombie

🧟

divine revelation

zombi

revengeful ghost

departed spirits

development

patent period

specter

spectre

apocalypse

being

bogey

bogy

bugbear

Translations

apparition

aparición

aparição

apparizione

Geist

fantôme

👻

Gespenst

👻

Spuk

Erscheinung

spectre

👻

verschijning

φάντασμα

Phantom

aparició

fantasma

👻

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/

Etymology

From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.