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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864. A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.
A selfie of American senator Chris Coons (left) and German chancellor Olaf Scholz, who have been noted to resemble each other [1]. A look-alike, or double, is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance.
The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy, 2010 book by Dimitris Vardoulakis; Doppelganger, a 2008 novel by Pete Hautman; Doppelganger, a 2010 novel by Jenny Valentine; The Doppelganger, a 1936 novel by Hammond Innes; Doppelganger, a 2023 non-fiction book by Naomi Klein; Doppelganger (comics), a character appearing in Marvel Comics
The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared in the 1796 novel Siebenkäs by Johann Paul Richter, the double figure emerged in Gothic literature in the late 18th century due to a resurgence of interest in mythology and folklore which explored notions of duality, such as the fetch in Irish ...
[1] [2] The syndrome is also called the syndrome of doubles of the self, [3] delusion of subjective doubles, [1] or simply subjective doubles. [4] Sometimes, the patient is under the impression that there is more than one double. [1] A double may be projected onto any person, from a stranger to a family member. [4]
Millie Bobby Brown is renowned for her work on the hit show Stranger Things... and if we're talking strange things, we can't ignore the uncanny resemblance she bears to a younger Natalie Portman. ...
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
Gen Z has come up with yet another pop culture phrase to baffle anyone born before the year 2000. On the Feb. 2 edition of Hoda & Jenna, the hosting duo puzzled over a popular Gen Z slang term ...