ghostings

Noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

1. (colloquial) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
   • Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but ghosting can end a friendship as well.
2. The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3. A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.
4. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
   • Near-synonyms: bleed-through, bleeding, print-through

   Synonyms:

   bleed-through, bleeding, print-through

5. Ghost imaging.
6. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.
   • Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.

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