ghosting

plural ghostings

1. colloquialcountableuncountableA method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.First known use 2000s

   Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but ghosting can end a friendship as well.

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   They probed participants’ experiences with ghosting from the perspective of both the ghoster and the ghostee.

   2019 March 11, Vinita Mehta, “The Anatomy of Ghosting”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025

2. countableuncountablebroadcastingThe blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3. countableuncountableA 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.
4. countableuncountableThe phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

   Near-synonyms: bleed-through, bleeding, print-through

   Synonyms: bleed-through, bleeding, print-through

5. countableuncountablecomputingGhost imaging.
6. countableuncountableThe practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.

   Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.

7. countableslanguncountableThe act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.
8. countableuncountablecomputingA problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.

   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.

   2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine, page 218

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ghost