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Ghostliness

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ghost·ly  (gstl)
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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Noun1.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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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
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