Apparition meaning

Noun: apparition

Pronunciation: (a-pu’ri-shun)

Apparition meaning:

1. A ghostly appearing figure. Synonyms: phantasm, phantom, spectre
2. The appearance of a ghostlike figure.
3. Something existing in perception only. Synonyms: phantasm, shadow, phantom
4. An act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly.

Quotations: Michelangelo – In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

Adam Lazzara – If you look closer at the album cover, you see all the reflections in the window so it makes everyone like an apparition, you know? We wanted to touch on the feeling that you can be in a room packed full of people and still feel alone.

Nikki Steward – Photos of apparitions are very, very rare, but we can, based on evidence obtained, tell you whether you have spirit activity in your house.

Logan Pearsall Smith – When people talk of Ghosts I don’t mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors.

Thomas Carlyle – The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not.

Carl Gustav Jung – Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

Sample sentences:

1. I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
2. Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us.
3. The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war. War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.
4. These fields may also induce more elaborate forms of sensory hallucination ranging from the feeling of a ‘sensed presence’ to seeing a fully formed apparition.
5. We all were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us.
6. She was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening spectre.
7. I have seen a ghostly apparition at midnight.
8. The natives here were amazed at the apparition of this stranger.
9. That character is a cartoon apparition that even little kids can be comfortable with.
10. An apparition is said to appear at his grave site every year on this day.