An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
the sudden apparition of the Spaniards
The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
[…] which apparition, it seems, was you.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
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