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a ghost wearing the costume of everything you're too afraid to name out loud
means A ghost or phantom — or, figuratively, a haunting threat or dread that looms over the mind.
from From Latin 'spectrum,' meaning an appearance or apparition, built on 'specere,' to look or behold — the same root that peers out of 'spectacle,' 'inspect,' and 'spectator.' It drifted into English through French 'spectre' in the 1600s. Fittingly, the word for the thing you cannot help but stare at comes from the verb for staring itself.
- marx's choice
- The Communist Manifesto opens with a specter haunting Europe
- latin root
- From spectrum, meaning appearance or vision
- haunting brand
- Bond villain Blofeld's organization spelled it SPECTRE
- spectral colors
- Same root gave physics the visible light spectrum
- verb form
- To loom is to act exactly like one
specter of communism — opening phrase of marx and engels' communist manifesto (1848): 'a specter is haunting europe'
specter of stagflation — economic term used to describe 1970s crisis in us and uk with simultaneous high inflation and unemployment