appearance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
lifestyle
medicine
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
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”).
Base: appear
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: appearances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: appearaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His sudden appearance surprised me.
gloss: A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a strange appearance in the sky.
gloss: The way something looks; personal presence
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And now am come to ſee of whom ſuch noiſe
 Hath walk'd about, and each limb to ſurvey,
 If thy appearance anſwer loud report.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
gloss: Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance.
KAWS’s first sculptures were limited edition toys for the Japanese brand Bounty Hunter, and the stylised figures distributed around YSP in a variety of postures – shielding their eyes from the sun, seated in apparent contemplation or leading a child-sized version of themselves over the sward – have the appearance of gigantic toys, with their instant legibility and machine-honed surfaces.
And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
Judge not according to the appearance.
'Never be taken in by false appearancesʻ was Swift's habitual satirical message. 'In most Corporeal Beings, which have fallen under my Cognizance, the Outside hath been infinitely preferable to the In,' he elsewhere proclaimed. … The sordid reality beneath the mask haunted him: was all civilisation just dirt and derangement at heart? […] Evidently man was not the homo rationalis he pretended to be but rather, at best, homo rationis capax ─ a creature capable of rationality, though by implication falling short.
gloss: That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physical appearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.
David Beckham's first appearance with the LA Galaxy at Giants Stadium against the New York Red Bulls last night drew a crowd of 66237.
Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?
gloss: 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
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The patient had a small bowel obstruction and there was no appearance until after the obstruction resolved.
Synonyms: debut
Antonyms: non-appearance
nonappearance
Related words: apparent
appear
Derived words: abrupt appearance
appearanced
appearance money
coappearance
court appearance
disappearance
keep up appearances
make an appearance
misappearance
plate appearance
put in an appearance
reappearance
save appearances
to all appearance
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: явя́ване
roman: javjávane
lang: Catalan
word: compareixença
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 出庭
roman: chūtíng
lang: Dutch
word: comparitie
lang: Finnish
word: saapuminen
lang: Finnish
word: ilmestyminen
lang: Finnish
word: näyttäytyminen
lang: French
word: comparution
lang: Middle French
word: comparution
lang: Greek
word: εμφάνιση
roman: emfánisi
lang: Greek
word: προσέλευση
roman: prosélefsi
lang: Hindi
word: पेशी
roman: peśī
lang: Indonesian
word: komparisi
lang: Irish
word: láithreas
lang: Italian
word: comparizione
lang: Italian
word: comparsa
lang: Japanese
word: 出廷
roman: shuttei
lang: Polish
word: stawiennictwo
lang: Portuguese
word: comparecimento
lang: Romanian
word: înfățișare (la judecătorie)
lang: Russian
word: я́вка
roman: jávka
lang: Sicilian
word: cumparizziuni
lang: Sicilian
word: cumparsa
lang: Spanish
word: aparición
lang: Spanish
word: comparecencia
lang: Ukrainian
word: я́вка
roman: jávka