ghostly
There is a ghostliness about empty boats that disturbs her.
Through the length of the play, Isobel appears in her ghostliness on the fringes of every scene.
A faint ghostliness filled the windows of the building and then the mist blotted it out.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Souls, spirits & ghosts
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astral plane
astral projection
aura
chi
ectoplasm
incorporeal
incubus
necromancer
necromancy
Ouija board
reincarnation
soul
spectrally
spectre
succubus
séance
wight
wraith
zombie

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Examples of ghostliness

ghostliness
It is not the least amongst the achievements of the present collection of essays that such ghostliness in given fresh flesh.
This is the traditional gateway to ghostliness.
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