ghosting

Plural: ghostings

Verb

• move like a ghost
• haunt like a ghost; pursue
• write for someone else
• present participle and gerund of ghost

Noun

• A faint, duplicated image on a screen or in a photograph.
• The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
• The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
• Ghost imaging.
• 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.
• A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
• A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
• The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
• The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.

Examples

• Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but it's worth mentioning that friend ghosting is real, and sometimes necessary.
• The GHOSTING on the board made it hard to see if that triple letter tile was covered.

Synonyms

ghost, ghostwrite, haunt, obsess

Related Words

breadcrumbing, cushioning, orbiting, zombieing