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Definition of Semblance
1. Noun. An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading. "The situation soon took on a different color"
Generic synonyms: Appearance, Visual Aspect
Specialized synonyms: Color Of Law, Colour Of Law, Simulacrum, Face Value, Guise, Pretence, Pretense, Pretext, Camouflage, Disguise, Verisimilitude
Derivative terms: Gloss
2. Noun. An erroneous mental representation.
Specialized synonyms: Apparition, Fantasm, Phantasm, Phantasma, Phantom, Shadow, Irradiation, Phantom Limb
Generic synonyms: Appearance
Derivative terms: Illusional
3. Noun. Picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing.
Specialized synonyms: Identikit, Identikit Picture, Portrait, Portrayal
Generic synonyms: Icon, Ikon, Image, Picture
Definition of Semblance
1. n. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
Definition of Semblance
1. Noun. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar. ¹
2. Noun. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semblance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semblance
Literary usage of Semblance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Spenser views through Merlin's magic glass, to wnich time and space are
immaterial, and all human experience is but the semblance of things not seen. ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"... possessing no power of eminent domain, could seize the lands of another, to
which it has no semblance of title, and appropriate them to its own use, ..."
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