Ghosting

Quick meaning: Ghosting is a noun meaning (colloquial) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.

Meaning

(colloquial) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.

More Meanings

1. (electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
2. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
3. (computing) Ghost imaging.
4. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.
5. 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.
6. (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
7. (slang) The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• ghostings

Synonyms for ghosting

Depending on context, synonyms include bleed-through, bleeding, print-through.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wraith, specter, spectre, spook, haunt, obsess.

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