Synonyms: apparition, shadow, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, fantasm
Definition: something existing in perception only
Usage: a ghostly apparition at midnight
Synonyms: phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre, apparition, fantasm
Definition: a ghostly appearing figure
Usage: we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
Similar words: disembodied spirit, spirit
Definition: any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
Synonyms: phantom
Definition: something apparently sensed but having no physical reality
Usage: seemed to hear faint phantom bells; the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb
Similar words: unreal
Definition: not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
Usage: this conversation is getting more and more unreal; the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy; the unreal world of advertising art