![]() ![]() By extenstion, it may be taken as a rarer synonym of phantom. Specter is synonymous with apparition in the sense of an unnatural entity becoming visbile or manifest. Phantom is the French oppressor's word, from Latin phantasma, itself from Greek related to fantasy.) ( Ghost is the native Germanic word - Geist in German. The Holy Spirit is the Holy Ghost, not the **Holy Phantom. When a person dies, we say that they gave up the ghost, and not the phantom. In medicine, you cannot say ghost limb instead of phantom limb in computing, you cannot say ghost read instead of phantom read in electrotechnics you cannot say ghost power instead of phantom power, although you can say ghost load instead of phantom load. Ghost and phantom have a wide area of overlap, but there are many usages where the two words are not interchangeable. For example, we may speak of the apparition of a ghost. ![]() Even then, it usually refers not to the unnatural entity itself, but rather to its image becoming visible. It might mean an appearance of an unnatural entity, but this meaning is secondary and needs to be clarified in context. For example, we speak of the first apparition of a publication. (I was.)Īpparition means primarily an act of becoming visible or available. I would advise against using this word, especially because even those rare people who would recognize it as the unadapted form of the Greek word eidôlon may be astonished to learn that it doesn't mean idol. Unfortunately is is very rarely used, and many people may have never encountered it. The words have different usages, and, although in some contrived contexts they might be made to be interchangeable, in most practical situations they are not.Įidolon is the most general of the words on the list, in that it can refer to any real or virtual image representing any kind of imagined entity. ![]()
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