apparition.
An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
Meaning & usage
An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
The attic is said to be haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
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