Ghostliness

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ghost·ly (g

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adj. ghost·li·er, ghost·li·est

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a ghost, a wraith, or an apparition; spectral.

2. Of or relating to the soul or spirit; spiritual.

ghostli·ness n.

ghostly adv.

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Noun

ghostliness - strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

eeriness

strangeness, unfamiliarity - unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

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eeriness ghostly strangeness unfamiliarity			And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context I remember how the world looked from our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning: the low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out into ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff willow bushes. My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context The situation is suggestive of a reality and a tangibility that seem at variance with the vagueness and mystery and ghostliness that one naturally attaches to the character of a god. The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context			ghettoize GHG Ghibelline Ghibellinism Ghiberti ghibli ghillie Ghirlandaio Ghole ghost ghost car ghost crab ghost dance ghost driver ghost gum ghost moth ghost net ghost story ghost town ghost weed ghost word Ghostfish ghosting Ghostless Ghostlike Ghostliness ghostly Ghostology Ghosts ghostweed ghostwrite ghostwriter ghoul ghoulish ghoulishly GHQ ghrelin GHRF ghyll GHz GI GI hormones GI Joe GI series GI tract GIA Giacometti Giacomo della Chiesa Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Puccini Giallolino			Ghost-crater Ghost-writer Ghost-writing Ghostbusters Ghostbusters 2 Ghostdavandal ghosted ghosted ghosted ghosted ghosted ghosted Ghostfinder Paranormal Society ghostfish ghosting ghosting ghosting ghosting ghosting ghosting ghosting server Ghostless ghostlier ghostlier ghostliest ghostliest ghostlike ghostlike ghostlike ghostlike Ghostliness ghostly ghostly ghostly ghostly ghostly form Ghostly Hamsters Overwhelm Spooky Treehouse Ghostology Ghostology Ghostology Ghostology Ghostring ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society Ghosts Don't Exist Ghosts in Gloom Ghosts of a Chance Ghosts of Mars Ghosts of Perdition Ghosts of the Fallen Ghosts of the Revolution Ghosts on Pegasus Bridge Ghostscript Ghostscript Ghosttown Ghosttown

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