apparitional

Of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions
    • People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror? - 1908, Henry James, chapter 2, in...
    • Since the people of this period carved innumerable vulvas on the walls of the caves, it is natural to assume that the monthly rhythms of the vulva were closely attended to, and that ovulation was no invisible event but...

    Synonyms: ghostly immaterial spectral

Origin

Etymology tree English apparition Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English apparitional From apparition + -al.

Forms

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