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English noun: appearance | |||
| 1. | appearance (attribute) outward or visible aspect of a person or thing | ||
| Synonyms | visual aspect | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | agerasia, beauty, blemish, cast, color, color, colour, colour, complexion, countenance, decorativeness, defect, deformity, discoloration, discolouration, disfiguration, disfigurement, effect, elaborateness, etiolation, face, form, format, gloss, hairiness, hairlessness, homeliness, image, impression, linear perspective, look, mar, ornateness, persona, perspective, phase, pilosity, plainness, plainness, semblance, shape, sleekness, stain, superficies, ugliness, vanishing point, view, visage | ||
| 2. | appearance (event) the event of coming into sight | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | apparition, manifestation, manifestation, materialisation, materialization, reappearance | ||
| Antonyms | disappearance | ||
| 3. | appearance (act) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | ||
| Synonyms | appearing, coming into court | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | attendance, attending | ||
| 4. | appearance (cognition) a mental representation | ||
| Samples | I tried to describe his appearance to the police. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | internal representation, mental representation, representation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | 3-D, 3D, front, illusion, semblance, three-D | ||
| 5. | appearance (act) the act of appearing in public view | ||
| Samples | The rookie made a brief appearance in the first period. It was Bernhardt's last appearance in America. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | arrival | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | apparition, emergence, emersion, reappearance, return | ||
| Antonyms | disappearance, disappearing | ||
| 6. | appearance (act) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | ||
| Samples | They try to keep up appearances. That ceremony is just for show. | ||
| Synonyms | show | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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