"apparitions" in the noun sense
1. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
a ghostly appearing figure
"we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
2. apparition
the appearance of a ghostlike figure
"I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter"
3. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow
something existing in perception only
"a ghostly apparition at midnight"
4. apparition
an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly
"natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"
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