Ghosts

See also demons; spirits and spiritualism.

doppelgänger

a supposedly ghostly counterpart or double of a living person.

eidolism

a belief in ghosts.

eidolon

a phantom or apparition.

phantasm

a vision or other perception of something that has no physical or objective reality, especially in the sense of a ghost or other supernatural apparition. Also phantasma. See also images; philosophy.

phantasmology

spectrology.

phasmophobia

an abnormal fear of ghosts.

sciomancy

fortunetelling through communication with the spirits of the dead. —sciomantic, adj.

sciotheism

a religion in which ghosts are worshiped instead of gods.

spectrology

the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions. Also called phantasmology, spookology. —spectrological, adj.

spectrophobia

an abnormal fear of specters or phantoms.

spookology

spectrology.

supernaturalism

1. the condition or quality of existing outside the known experience of man or caused by forces beyond those of nature.

2. belief in supernatural events or forces. Also supranaturalism. —supernaturalist, n., adj. —supernatural, supernaturalistic, adj.

supranaturalism

supernaturalism. —supranaturalist, n., adj. —supranatural, supranaturalistic, adj.