Appearance

Noun

 * 1) The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
 * 2) A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
 * 3) Personal presence; look; aspect; mien.
 * 4) apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others.
 * 5) 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.
 * 6)  The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.
 * , chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

Adjectives for Appearance
august; pompous; distinguished; stately austere; noble; commanding; charming; cordial; worthy; antiquated; venerable; comfortable; immaculate; sleek; well-fed; quaint; luscious; artistic; dainty; lovely; comely; gorgeous; untidy; uncouth; angular; ungainly; forlorn; shabby; genteel; plaintive; somber; mysterious; weird; eerie; astounding; arresting; striking; singular; sprightly; grotesque; rakish; massive; robust; rugged; emaciated; deceitful; cadaverous; unearthly; desolate; quarrelsome; offending; miserable; sullen; disgusting; ungraceful; incongruous; gross; flamboy; ant; resentful; jaded; phlegmatic; grim physical; youthful; nautical; grave-like, nun-like; orderly; unkempt; park-like; rabbit-like; clerk-like; mournful; exotic; ethereal; leonine; tolerable; ludicrous; poverty-stricken; fragile; casual; contrite; slovenly; dismaying; unfortunate; disjointed; sunken; bedraggled; animated; faint; diaphanous; picturesque; slothful; worm-eaten;contradictory; stern; benevolent; wretched; vulgar; dilapidated; external; promising; visual; ducal; inviting; ideal; squalid; sedate; outward; greasy; attractive; distinctive; ursine; demure; decorative; satanic; fearful; vacant; independent; portentous; beneficent; dignified; mottled; studious; stupid; timid; opalescent; ferocious; prepossessing; sickly; festive; reconciliatory; tawdry; impoverished; voluntary; scattered; deserted; prosperous; famished; thumb-worn; unhealthy; reverential; respectable; swing-like; school-teacherish; unobstrusive; weedy; natty; frank; antediluvian; genuine; brave; flattering; material; palatial; battered; dressy; individual; variegated; watered; majestic; spectral.

Verbs for Appearance
come into—; detect—; disclaim—; discredit—; disfigure—; display—; involve—; greet—; judge by—; observe—; parade—; perceive by —; present an—; preserve ;put in—; ruffle—; transfigure—; transform—; —arrests; —belies; —repels.

Synonyms for Appearance

 * arrival, manifestation,
 * spectacle, apparition, phenomenon, presence
 * aspect, air, figure, look, manner, mien
 * semblance, show, pretense, façade or facade
 * debut
 * coming, advent, guise, form, demeanor, presence.

Antonyms for Appearance
departure, leaving, absence.

Derived terms

 * court appearance
 * disappearance
 * keep up appearances
 * nonappearance


 * plate appearance
 * put in an appearance
 * reappearance
 * save appearances

Thesaurus
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; public image; publication; reaching; representation; revelation; revenant; 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, Christophany; Masan; Prospero; Satanophany; 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; 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; masquerade; materialization; mere externals; meretriciousness; mien; mirage; oni; openness; ostent.

Etymology
From apparence:, from  apparentia:, from appareo:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: появяване
 * Catalan: aparició
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: objevení se
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ilmestyminen, ilmaantuminen
 * French:
 * German: Erscheinen, Auftritt


 * Hebrew: הופעה (hofa'a)
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese: aparição
 * Romanian: apariție, ivire
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: aparició
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: zjawisko


 * Portuguese: aparição
 * Romanian: apariție, viziune
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: framträdande


 * Arabic: شكل
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: външност, външен вид
 * Catalan: aparença
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:


 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Navajo:
 * Polish: wygląd (common w.), aparycja
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: înfățișare, aspect (exterior), aparență
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: شكل
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: dealramh, cruth, cuma


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 様子 (yōsu)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: aparență, înfățișare
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tillstymmelse, sken, utseende


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: aparecimento
 * Romanian: prezentare, înfățișare, apariție


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: uppträdande, framträdande


 * Bulgarian: явяване
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: comparecimento


 * Romanian: înfățișare (la judecătorie)
 * Spanish: