specter
Noun
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A mental representation of some haunting experience (synset 105906778)
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
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A ghostly appearing figure (synset 109570240)
"we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"hypernym: disembodied spirit, spirit - any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beingshyponym: flying dutchman - the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day
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