GHOSTLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ghostliness mean? 

• GHOSTLINESS (noun)
  The noun GHOSTLINESS has 1 sense:

1. strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

  Familiarity information: GHOSTLINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GHOSTLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

eeriness; ghostliness

Hypernyms ("ghostliness" is a kind of...):

strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)

Derivation:

ghostly (resembling or characteristic of a phantom)

 Context examples 

I really did not expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)