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PRONUNCIATION OF GHOSTLINESS

ghostliness  [ˈɡəʊstlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GHOSTLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ghostliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GHOSTLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ghostliness in the English dictionary

The definition of ghostliness in the dictionary is the state or quality of being or of resembling a phantom.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GHOSTLINESS


beastliness
ˈbiːstlɪnɪs
comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
costliness
ˈkɒstlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
ghastliness
ˈɡɑːstlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
manliness
ˈmænlɪnɪs
portliness
ˈpɔːtlɪnɪs
saintliness
ˈseɪntlɪnɪs
sightliness
ˈsaɪtlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
sprightliness
ˈspraɪtlɪnɪs
stateliness
ˈsteɪtlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
uncourtliness
ʌnˈkɔːtlɪnɪs
unknightliness
ʌnˈnaɪtlɪnɪs
unsightliness
ʌnˈsaɪtlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GHOSTLINESS

ghost estate
ghost fishing
ghost gum
ghost image
ghost moth
ghost prisoner
ghost story
ghost town
ghost train
ghost word
ghost writer
ghostlier
ghostliest
ghostlike
ghostly
ghostwrite
ghostwriting
ghostwritten
ghostwrote
ghosty

WORDS THAT END LIKE GHOSTLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of ghostliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ghostliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GHOSTLINESS

Find out the translation of ghostliness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ghostliness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ghostliness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

幽灵
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fantasmal
570 millions of speakers

English

ghostliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ghostliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشبحية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ghostliness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fantasmagoria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ghostliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fantomatique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ghostliness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Geisterhaftigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ghostliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ghostliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ghostliness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ghostliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ghostliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भुताची तीव्रता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ghostliness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spettralità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ghostliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ghostliness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ghostliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ghostliness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spookagtigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ghostliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ghostliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ghostliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GHOSTLINESS»

The term «ghostliness» is used very little and occupies the 168.120 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GHOSTLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ghostliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ghostliness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ghostliness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GHOSTLINESS»

Discover the use of ghostliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ghostliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Surrealist Ghostliness
In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism.
Katharine Conley, 2013
2
Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
The. Ghostliness. of. Genre. The preceding chapter on ghost films e plored the ways in which spectral women can provoke a sense of historical accountability, vivifying pasts nearly effaced from memory. In this final chapter, I e amine not the  ...
Bliss Cua Lim, 2009
3
The Atlantic Monthly
In the strangely penetrant light of their mad, teaching the ghostliness of all substance, granite or gossamer, — just as those lately found X-I'ays make visible the ghostliness of flesh, — this their present World, with its bigger mountains and  ...
‎1896
4
Books and Their Writers
In his vast reading he was eternally seeking and finding subjects or ideas in accord with his beautiful youthfulness of spirit : therefore, he remains the poet of young men, his charm resting chiefly on his quality of ' ghostliness.' We seldom find ...
Stuart Petre Brodie Mais, 1920
5
A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in ...
Metaphors of ghostliness in the Romantic and Victorian periods self-consciously locate the writing subject in this liminal space. The dichotomy of inner and outer is translated in many Romantic poems into a contrast between the natural and ...
Martin A. Danahay, 1993
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The Spectator
For instance, we should not have conceived LAST WORDS ABOUT HAWTHORNE.* j such an explanation of his coldness, his ghostliness, his mor- Mit. Page's interesting volume, which will find a welcome ! bidity aa the following, and yet put ...
‎1873
7
Delights, Desires, and Dilemmas: Essays on Women and the Media
From suspense thriller to romantic comedy these films attest to America's continued interest in the idea of life after death. In the thriller genre, however, ghostliness provides a device for veiling cultural anxieties concerned with issues not only of ...
Ann C. Hall, 1998
8
A Study of Vermeer
Here is a book to enthrall not only students of Vermeer, but anyone who feels the exhilaration of what Cézanne called "thinking in images."
Edward A. Snow, Johannes Vermeer, 1994
9
The Taboo
and find in the whispered reply, “Thy evil spirit, Brutus,” the historical site of Totem and Taboo. Freud says his nephew returned from England “as the playmate of my earliest years,” but his ghostliness includes his signification, as Caesar, of the  ...
Harold Bloom, Blake Hobby, 2010
10
The Misfortunes of Elphin
Thomas Love Peacock Richard Garnett. CHAPTER XIII. THE GHOSTLINESS OF AVALLON. Poco piu, poco meno, tutti al mondo vivono d'impostura : e chi e di buon gusto, dissimula quando occorre, gode quando pu6, crede quel che vuole,  ...
Thomas Love Peacock, Richard Garnett, 1891

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GHOSTLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ghostliness is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Incredible Shrinking Zeitgeist: How Did This Great Word Lose Its …
For a wisp of language compounded of ghostliness and time, the zeitgeist is sure making its presence felt. But what exactly do people mean ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Paranormal phenomena at Eau Gallie Cemetery
But little matches the reputation of the cemetery for ghostliness, historic as it is. A fountain of information for those interested in history and ... «Florida Today, Jun 15»
3
Blackness as Being, Whiteness as Nothingness
Yet just a “bare mention” of New Hampshire's White Mountains causes a “gigantic ghostliness” to pass “over the soul.” The Yellow Sea merely ... «The Nation., Jun 15»
4
The Four-Dimensional Human: In Conversation With Laurence Scott
... to see how weird they think this kind of interaction is and whether they can put up with the ghostliness of it or whether they won't even notice. «The Quietus, Jun 15»
5
Into The Light: Anthony Marwood leads Adelaide Symphony
From meditative stillness to demonic passion and a feathery ghostliness at its conclusion, Marwood and the ASO turned in a thoroughly ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
6
This Photo Show Marks a High Point for the Transgender Movement
Despite the heightened detail, the photos still have a certain ghostliness typical of more primitive photographic techniques. The images are far ... «Bedford + Bowery, Jun 15»
7
Edna O'Brien: By the Book
... “to give us the landscape of the country in all its beauty, savagery, ghostliness and loneliness.” What books are currently on your night stand? «New York Times, May 15»
8
Timothy O'Grady on creating I Could Read the Sky, a book for …
... with Steve's photographs, which in themselves seemed to possess something of the ghostliness of memory. I knew something of the terrain. «Irish Times, May 15»
9
The Orange Couch Does Mad Men, S7 E12: “Lost Horizon”
The ghostliness of it all? That really worked for me. And so a lot of our episode this week focuses on many of the allusions and the concepts of ... «Raw Story, May 15»
10
On The Brink: Austin Bunn on His Literary Debut
... I had just read Jared Diamond's excellent book Collapse, which explores several extinct societies, and I think that ghostliness persisted in the ... «Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, May 15»

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