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apparition

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Synonyms and Antonyms of apparition

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people

an eccentric who claimed to have photographed an apparition in her very own house

Synonyms of apparition

bogey (also bogie), familiar spirit, ghost, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith

Words Related to apparition

angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn), shaitan

double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch

incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi)

cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp

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