Double

Double (Ger. doppelgänger), a kind of apparition, a person's own likeness appearing and usually admonishing the beholder of approaching death, a wraith; or simply implying bilocation, when the same person is supposed to be seen by others in two places at once. See APPARITION and the works there cited; also Lambertini's De Beatificatione; and for a kind of double consciousness, see PERSONALITY. Double is playfully applied to either of two persons so closely resembling as to be mistaken for each other.