spectrality means the quality of being spectral or ghostly. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “spectrality” is a great word
SPECTRALITY — [Noun] The quality of being spectral or ghostly; a spectral entity or phenomenon. From the adjective 'spectral' (meaning 'ghostly,' from 'spectre' + '-al') + the noun-forming suffix '-ity' (denoting a state or quality). The earliest known use is from 1850, in the writing of Thomas Carlyle. Unlike 'ethereality' (which suggests a delicate, heavenly insubstantiality) or 'phantasm' (which denotes a concrete illusion or ghost), spectrality names the haunting condition of being both present and absent. It is the cold displacement of air in a sunlit hallway, the persistent chill where someone died, and the familiar footfall on an empty staircase—the world's quiet insistence that some absences possess more substance than what fills them.
Etymology
From spectral + -ity.
noun
- The quality of being spectral or ghostly.
- Something spectral; a ghost, a spectre.“[T]raditions now really about extinct; not living now to almost any of us, and still haunting with their spectralities and gibbering ghosts (in a truly baleful manner) almost all of us!”