ghosting
nounEtymology From ghost + -ing.
8 senses
- 1A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping…
- 2The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting…
- 3A form of identity theft in which someone steals the…
- 4The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a…
- 5Ghost imaging.
- 6The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by…
- 7The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to…
- 8A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous…
Colloquial A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
- 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.2019 March 11, Vinita Mehta, “The Anatomy of Ghosting”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025:
Broadcasting, Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Media, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Television The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
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, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A 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:
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