Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Appearance.
- noun Apparentness; state of being apparent.
- noun The position of being heir apparent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
apparent ;apparentness . - noun obsolete
appearance - noun The position of being
heir apparent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being apparent
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Examples
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Although this report looks somewhat as being critical, for people that know enough, it was full of obfuscation and scientology styled 'apparency'.
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Although this report looks somewhat as being critical, for people that know enough, it was full of obfuscation and scientology styled 'apparency'.
WN.com - Articles related to Tourism industry signs protection code ahead of World Cup 2010
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So -- while it may look like cowardice -- this must be an apparency.
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Would these distributions be in a cone like apparency or something like 2 times a 45 degree angle tilted orbits ring that happen to be where the bars are located.
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An apparency of democratic process is maintained by allowing non governmental organizations (NGOs) to attend meetings and at times to speak, but their voice is powerless.
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I've seen intense therapy programs actually reduce the apparency of Down's over time.
The wild speculation that Sarah Palin is not the real mother of the new baby she presents as her own. Ann Althouse 2008
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This is common knowledge but the apparency of its stillness, its solidarity, cues observers, even interacters, to behave the same, believe the same about this fluid, vaporous element as the earth around it.
hemopoetic Diary Entry hemopoetic 2002
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Fitzgerald was also aware of this apparency, and it annoyed him.
A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901
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Once again, a company is saddled with fragmentation's effects -- despite the apparency of a "solution."
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In late 1944, despite the apparency of Germany's imminent defeat, Hitler decided to bring the Holocaust to Hungary.
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