spectrality

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noun

The quality of being spectral or ghostly.

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Meanings

nounspectrality (usually uncountable, plural spectralities)

plural spectralities

  1. uncountableusuallyThe quality of being spectral or ghostly.
  2. countableusuallySomething 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

Origin

From spectral + -ity.

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spectrality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectrality

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“spectrality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectrality. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spectrality,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectrality.

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