English > disembodied spirit: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings. |
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| Synonym | spirit |
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| Narrower | apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre | A ghostly appearing figure |
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| banshee, banshie | (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death |
| control | A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance |
| evil spirit | A spirit tending to cause harm |
| familiar, familiar spirit | A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch / witch or wizard |
| genie, jinni, jinnee, djinni, djinny, djinn | (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals |
| kachina | A deified spirit of the Pueblo people |
| numen | A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) |
| peri | (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done |
| presence | An invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby |
| python | A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit |
| sylvan, silvan | A spirit that lives in or frequents the woods |
| thunderbird | (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning / lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird |
| zombi, zombie, zombi spirit, zombie spirit | (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body |
| Broader | spiritual being, supernatural being | An incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events |
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| Spanish | alma, espíritu, ser espiritual |
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| Catalan | esperit |
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