'appearance' definitions:
Definition of 'appearance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Outward or visible aspect of a person or thing [syn: appearance, visual aspect]
noun
The event of coming into sight [ant: disappearance]
noun
Formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action [syn: appearance, appearing, coming into court]
noun
A mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police"
noun
The act of appearing in public view; "the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period"; "it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America" [ant: disappearance, disappearing]
noun
Pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression; "they try to keep up appearances"; "that ceremony is just for show" [syn: appearance, show]
Synonyms of 'appearance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- acting,
- advent,
- affectation,
- air,
- airiness,
- angelophany,
- apparent character,
- apparition,
- appearances,
- approach,
- arrival,
- aspect,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- attainment,
- attitudinizing,
- avatar,
- banshee,
- bearing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- Christophany,
- color,
- coloring,
- coming,
- control,
- countenance,
- deception,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- demeanor,
- departed spirit,
- disclosure,
- disembodied spirit,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissemination,
- dissimulation,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- embodiment,
- epiphany,
- evidence,
- evincement,
- expression,
- exteriority,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externality,
- externalness,
- externals,
- extrinsicality,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- false air,
- false appearance,
- false front,
- false image,
- false light,
- false show,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fantasy,
- features,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fiction,
- figure,
- foreignness,
- form,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- ghost,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- guise,
- hant,
- haunt,
- hint,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- idealization,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- image,
- immateriality,
- imposture,
- incarnation,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- indication,
- larva,
- lemures,
- lineaments,
- look,
- looks,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- make-believe,
- manes,
- manifestation,
- manner,
- Masan,
- masquerade,
- materialization,
- mere externals,
- meretriciousness,
- mien,
- mirage,
- oni,
- openness,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outerness,
- outside,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- outwardness,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- phasm,
- phenomenon,
- playacting,
- pneumatophany,
- poltergeist,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- presence,
- prestidigitation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- proof,
- Prospero,
- public image,
- publication,
- reaching,
- representation,
- revelation,
- revenant,
- Satanophany,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shallowness,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- showing,
- shrouded spirit,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- speciousness,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- spook,
- sprite,
- suggestion,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- theophany,
- unactuality,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- wildest dream,
- window dressing,
- wraith,
- zombie