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Sprite vs Wraith - What's the difference?

sprite | wraith |

As nouns the difference between sprite and wraith

is that sprite is (mythology) a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition while wraith is a ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.

sprite

English

Noun

(wikipedia sprite) (en noun)
  • (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition.
  • *1803 , William Blake,
  • *:He who torments the chafer's sprite
  • *:Weaves a bower in endless night.
  • (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
  • The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
  • (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
  • An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
  • Anagrams

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    wraith

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.
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  • * {{quote-book
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  • * {{quote-book, passage=Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.
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    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * wraithish * wraithful * wraithlike

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wraith")