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Apparition

//ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

    "the sudden apparition of the Spaniards"

  2. 2
    an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly wordnet
  3. 3
    The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.

    "[…] which apparition, it seems, was you."

  4. 4
    something existing in perception only wordnet
  5. 5
    An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.

    "The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary."

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  1. 6
    the appearance of a ghostlike figure wordnet
  2. 7
    The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
  3. 8
    a ghostly appearing figure wordnet
  4. 9
    A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.

Etymology

From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.

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