Word.ws English Dictionary

ghostism

ghostism noun: belief in ghosts.

Noun

ghostism (uncountable)

  1. Belief in ghosts.
    • Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 105
    • This degradation took the forms of belief in Sheol (Hades) and in necromancy. Both of them were forms of ghostism. The first was a conception that the spirits of the departed remained associated somehow with their bodies and with the place of burial.1900, John Caldwell Calhoun Clarke, Man and His Divine Father, page 139

Origin of ghostism

From ghost + -ism.

Questions about ghostism

What does ghostism mean?
Ghostism means belief in ghosts.
What part of speech is ghostism?
Ghostism is a noun.

Words near ghostism in the dictionary

  1. ghostiness
  2. ghosting
  3. ghostings
  4. ghostish
  5. ghostishly
  6. ghostism
  7. ghostkind
  8. ghostking
  9. ghostkings
  10. ghostland
  11. ghostlands

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ghostism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ghostism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ghostism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.