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spectrality

spectrality noun: the quality of being spectral or ghostly.

Noun

spectrality (usually uncountable, plural spectralities)

  1. (usually) The quality of being spectral or ghostly.
  2. (countable, usually) Something spectral; a ghost, a spectre.
    • [T]raditions now really about extinct; not living now to almost any of us, and still haunting with their spectralities and gibbering ghosts (in a truly baleful manner) almost all of us!1850 February 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. I. The Present Time.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 36

Forms of spectrality

pluralspectralities

Origin of spectrality

From spectral + -ity.

Words formed from spectrality

Questions about spectrality

What does spectrality mean?
Spectrality means the quality of being spectral or ghostly.
What part of speech is spectrality?
Spectrality is a noun.
What is the plural of spectrality?
The plural of spectrality is spectralities.

Words near spectrality in the dictionary

  1. spectral types
  2. spectralism
  3. spectralist
  4. spectralists
  5. spectralities
  6. spectrality
  7. spectrally
  8. spectralness
  9. spectranomic
  10. spectranomics
  11. spectraplakin

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