| NOUN | attribute | semblance, gloss, color, colour | an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading |
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| cognition | semblance, illusion | an erroneous mental representation | |
| artifact | semblance, likeness | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing |
| Sounds | seh'mblahns | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading. | |
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| Example | "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity" | |
| Synonyms | gloss, color, colour | |
| Narrower | color of law, colour of law | A mere semblance of legal right |
| disguise, camouflage | An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | |
| face value | The apparent worth as opposed to the real worth | |
| guise, pretense, pretence, pretext | An artful or simulated semblance | |
| simulacrum | An insubstantial or vague semblance | |
| verisimilitude | The appearance of truth | |
| Broader | appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
| Spanish | apariencia, color, matiz, semblanza | |
| Catalan | aparença, color, matís, semblant | |
| Meaning | An erroneous mental representation. | |
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| Synonym | illusion | |
| Narrower | apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow | Something existing in perception only |
| irradiation | The apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background | |
| phantom limb | The illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated | |
| Broader | appearance | A mental representation |
| Spanish | ilusión, semblanza | |
| Catalan | il·lusió | |
| Meaning | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing. | |
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| Synonym | likeness | |
| Narrower | Identikit, Identikit picture | A likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police |
| portrait, portrayal | Any likeness of a person, in any medium | |
| Broader | picture, image, icon, ikon | A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface |
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