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digital ghost

digital ghost noun: a digital avatar of a deceased person, such as a deathbot.

Noun

digital ghost (plural digital ghosts)

  1. A digital avatar of a deceased person, such as a deathbot.
    • This means there will be a December day when, instead of standing in the kitchen with my mom, I’ll be standing with her digital ghost. I’ll have mourned her physical passing, but will still be able to summon a part of her via my phone, propped up against the flour with one of many smudged and...2023 August 10, Kate Lindsay, “My Mom Will Email Me After She Dies”, in The Atlantic
    • “If I die and my children access my email account and reanimate me … for me, personally, that’s a horrific prospect,” says Professor Robert Sparrow of Monash University, who has written about the ethics of digital ghosts.2025 March 5, Patricia Clarke, “You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least”, in The Observer

Forms of digital ghost

pluraldigital ghosts

Questions about digital ghost

What does digital ghost mean?
Digital ghost means a digital avatar of a deceased person, such as a deathbot.
What part of speech is digital ghost?
Digital ghost is a noun.
What is the plural of digital ghost?
The plural of digital ghost is digital ghosts.

Words near digital ghost in the dictionary

  1. digital gaps
  2. digital garden
  3. digital gardening
  4. digital gardenings
  5. digital gardens
  6. digital ghost
  7. digital ghosts
  8. digital gold
  9. digital good
  10. digital goods
  11. digital graffiti

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