FAMILIAR SPIRITS Synonyms: 53 Similar Words

familiar spirits

noun

plural of familiar spirit

as in spirits

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people asked the spiritualist to summon the familiar spirit of her late mother for some matrimonial guidance

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Noun

Further lifting Toohey’s spirits is his former high school roommate Lachlan Olbrich.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
Space opened up and despite trailing, Argentine spirits were lifted.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

Definition of spirits

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Today, the massive complex attracts paranormal investigators who report apparitions, voices, and other unexplained phenomena.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
Why then, when discussing body image after weight changes, is our culture reaching for the language of vexing apparitions and death?

— Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

Definition of apparitions

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The music starts to shift beginning with the third episode, when Lestat becomes overwhelmed by the apparition of his abusive maker and other ghosts, including Claudia, whose killing he’d been forced to witness firsthand.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026
When nighttime falls, the game’s friendly parkgoers turn into zombies and ghosts who chase the park ranger, armed with nothing but a Frisbee deployed by the keyboard’s space bar.

— Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 9 July 2026

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