ghosting

Meanings

1. A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
2. The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
3. 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.
4. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
5. Ghost imaging.
6. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.
7. The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.
8. A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.

1. present participle and gerund of ghost

Etymology

From ghost + -ing.