| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into sight |
Synonyms: |
actualization, advent, appearing, arrival, coming, debut, display, emergence, entrance, exhibition, introduction, manifestation, materialization, presence, presentation, representation, rise, showing up, turning up, unveiling |
Antonyms: |
absence, departure, disappearance, leaving |
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outward aspect, characteristic |
Synonyms: |
air, attitude, bearing, blind, carriage, cast, character, condition, countenance, demeanor, dress, expression, face, fashion, feature, figure, form, front, guise, image, look, looks, manner, mannerism, mien, mode, outline, pose, presence, presentation, screen, semblance, shape, stamp |
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outward show; pretense |
Synonyms: |
aura, beard, blind, countenance, dream, facade, front, guise, idea, illusion, image, impression, mirage, phenomenon, reflection, screen, seeming, semblance, sound, specter, vision |
Antonyms: |
reality |
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
a show of, apparent, aspectable, autoptical, before one, before one's eyes, blatant, clear, conspectable, conspicuous, cutaway, definite, discernible, disclosed, discovered, distinct, doll-faced, epideictic, exposed to view, glaring, hardened, hedgehoggy, illusory, in bold relief, in focus, in full view, in one's eye, in relief, in sight, in strong relief, in view, kenspeckle, masked, obvious, on view, palpable, panoramic, perceivable, perceptible, periscopic, phanic, pie-faced, plain, recognizable, seeming, shifting, skenchback, staring, stereoscopic, telegenic, telephanous, thick-eyed, unclouded, under one's eye, undistinguishable, undistinguished, visible, well-defined, well-marked, whally, xanthomelanous
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| Concept: | Appearance. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; perceptions of light |
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-nouns
appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil; lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau; display, exposure, mise en scene; rising of the curtain., phantasm, phantom (fallacy of vision)., pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres chinoises; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views; biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama; coup de theatre, jeu de theatre; pageantry (ostentation); insignia (indication)., aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming; shape (form); guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor; presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing; point of view, light., lineament, feature, trait, lines; outline, outside; contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one's jib, metoposcopy; outside.
-verbs
appear; be visible, become visible [more]; seem, look, show; present the appearance of, wear the appearance of, carry the appearance of, have the appearance of, bear the appearance of, exhibit the appearance of, take the appearance of, take on the appearance of, assume the appearance, present the semblance of, wear the semblance of, carry the semblance of, have the semblance of, bear the semblance of, exhibit the semblance of, take the semblance of, take on the semblance of, assume the semblance of; look like; cut a figure, figure; present to the view; show (make manifest).
-adjectives
apparent, seeming, ostensible; on view.
-adverbs
apparently; to all seeming, to all appearance; ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie; at the first blush, at first sight; in the eyes of; to the eye.
-phrases
editio princeps.
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Antonyms: |
disappearance |
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| Main Entry: | advent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning or arrival of something anticipated |
Synonyms: |
appearance, approach, arrival, coming, entrance, occurrence, onset, visitation |
Antonyms: |
departure, end |
| Main Entry: | affectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretended behavior to make an impression |
Synonyms: |
air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front, front, going Hollywood, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, sham*, show, showing off, simulation |
Antonyms: |
naturalness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distinctive quality or character; style |
Synonyms: |
address, affectation, ambience, appearance, atmosphere, aura, bearing, comportment, demeanor, deportment, effect, feel, feeling, flavor, impression, look, manner, mannerism, mien, mood, pose, presence, property, quality, semblance, tone |
| Main Entry: | arrival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming to a destination |
Synonyms: |
accession, advent, alighting, appearance, approach, arriving, debarkation, disembarkation, dismounting, entrance, happening, homecoming, influx, ingress, landing, meeting, occurrence, return |
Antonyms: |
departure, disappearance, leave |
| Main Entry: | aspect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | visible feature |
Synonyms: |
air, appearance, attitude, bearing, condition, countenance, demeanor, expression, face, facet, form, look, manner, mien |