spectrality

English

Etymology

From spectral +‎ -ity.

Noun

spectrality (usually uncountable, plural spectralities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being spectral or ghostly.
  2. (countable) Something spectral; a ghost, a spectre.
    • 1850 February 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. I. The Present Time.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 36:
      [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!
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