specter

Noun
  1. A mental representation of some haunting experience (synset 105906778)
    "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
    is a type of: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow - something existing in perception only
    same as: ghost, shade, spectre, spook, wraith
  2. A ghostly appearing figure (synset 109570240)
    "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
    is a type of: disembodied spirit, spirit - any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
    subtypes: flying dutchman - the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day
    same as: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre

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