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Ghostliness

noun
1.
Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear.  Synonym: eeriness.





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"Ghostliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... early in December. I remember how the world looked from our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning: the low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out into ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff willow bushes. Big white flakes were whirling over everything and disappearing in the ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... forty years of age, slight of build; his face was pale to the point of ghostliness, and this impression was heightened by a jet black mustache and beard. One's first thought was that this man ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair


Words linked to "Ghostliness" :   unfamiliarity, eeriness, ghostly, strangeness


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