ghosting
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.52 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
Colloquial; Countable; Uncountable
noun
The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but ghosting can end a friendship as well."
- "They probed participants’ experiences with ghosting from the perspective of both the ghoster and the ghostee."
- "Near-synonyms: bleed-through, bleeding, print-through"
- "Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting."
- "Examine your matrix map, and make sure that no three keystrokes form a rectangle with a fourth keystroke that will cause you problems. This prevents both ghosting and blocking."