182. Ghosts
See also 114. DEMONS ; 384. SPIRITS and SPIRITUALISM .
- Doppelgänger, doubleganger
- a supposedly ghostly counterpart or double of a living person.
- eidolism
- a belief in ghosts.
- eidolon
- a phantom or apparition.
- phantasm
- a vision or other perception of something that has no physical or objective reality, especially in the sense of a ghost or other supernatural apparition. Also phantasma. See also 218. IMAGES ; 312. PHILOSOPHY .
- phantasmology
- spectrology.
- phasmophobia
- an abnormal fear of ghosts.
- sciomancy
- fortunetelling through communication with the spirits of the dead. — sciomantic, adj.
- sciotheism
- a religion in which ghosts are worshiped instead of gods.
- spectrology
- the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions. Also called phantasmology, spookology. — spectrological, adj.
- spectrophobia
- an abnormal fear of specters or phantoms.
- spookology
- spectrology.
- supernaturalism
- 1 . the condition or quality of existing outside the known experience of man or caused by forces beyond those of nature.
- 2 . belief in supernatural events or forces. Also supranaturalism. — supernaturalist, n., adj. — supernatural, supernaturalistic, adj.
- supranaturalism
- supernaturalism. — supranaturalist, n., adj. — supranatural, supranaturalistic, adj.
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