ghosting
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ
Noun
[edit]ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)
- (colloquial) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2000s]
- Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but ghosting can end a friendship as well.
- 2019 March 11, Vinita Mehta, “The Anatomy of Ghosting”, in Psychology Today[1], archived from the original on 9 December 2025:
- They probed participants’ experiences with ghosting from the perspective of both the ghoster and the ghostee.
- (electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
- Coordinate terms: double vision; (different) snowiness, snow, static, statickiness, shash
- 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.
- The 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
- (computing) Ghost imaging.
- The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.
- Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.
- (slang) The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.
- (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
- Coordinate terms: short-circuiting, fat-fingering
- 2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine, page 218:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]practice of hiding prisoners
appearance of ghosts on a television screen
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ghost imaging
a form of identity theft
a way to break relationship
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]ghosting
- present participle and gerund of ghost
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