appearance
Pronunciation: /əˈpɪə.ɹəns/
The English word “appearance” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- The way something looks; personal presence
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
- That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
- An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French apparence, from Latin apparentia, from appareo. Morphologically appear + -ance. Doublet of apparence and apparency. Displaced native Old English hīew (“the way something looks or seems”) and ætīewednes (“act of appearing or coming into view”).
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