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GHOSTLINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
Synonyms:
eeriness; ghostliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ghostliness" is a kind of...):
strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
Derivation:
ghostly (resembling or characteristic of a phantom)