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Ghosting vs Ignoring - What's the difference?

ghosting | ignoring |

As nouns the difference between ghosting and ignoring

is that ghosting is the practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors while ignoring is the act by which something is ignored.

As a verb ignoring is

present participle of lang=en.

ghosting

English

Noun

  • The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
  • The effect that interference caused by a multipath reception problem has on a television screen.
  • 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.
  • (computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses are not recognised.

    • ignoring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is ignored.
  • * 1999 , David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (volume 2, page 437)
    • We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S'' does not ignore them. ''S'' is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because ''S never knew much of anything.

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