spectrality

Examples

• All

• The artist's work captured the spectrality of the abandoned house, making it feel haunted and uninviting.

• Or, more concretely, here in South Africa, the constant reappearance of the past in almost every single act that aims at bringing a different future into being; the spectrality of a past some (and not only whites) would like to believe that it continues to, or can continue to, be somehow possible in its very impossibility; the reality, for many people (and not only blacks), that too much has changed and yet not enough has changed; the feeling (especially among the poor) that they are now not merely deprived of wealth and power, but even of life possibilities as such.

  Academic text (2010)

• Mediation, Spectrality, and Abjection

  Academic text (2013)

• The continued mediation and translation of the self-immolation renders the unknown woman more spectral than real, but also invites a reading attentive to the productive possibilities and ethical challenges of spectrality.

  Academic text (2013)

• In the dim light of the full moon, the spectrality of the mist over the lake created an eerie atmosphere.

Synonyms

G

ghostliness

vsspectrality

8.4

A strange, quiet feeling that makes you feel afraid

describes being otherworldly without strong emphasis on fear

Antonyms

S

substantiality

1 7.9

Having real importance or enough evidence to be believed

How Ghostly

spectrality

• Literature

9.9

ghostliness

8.4

eeriness

1 7.2

uncanniness

7.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology