appearance

1. 1.

   outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

   Synonymsvisual aspect

   Broaderquality

   Narroweragerasialookviewcolorcomplexionimpressionperspectivephasevanishing pointsuperficies
2. 2.

   the event of coming into sight

   Antonymsdisappearance

   Broaderhappening

   Narrowerreappearancematerializationmanifestationapparition
3. 3.

   formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action

   Synonymsappearingcoming into court

   Broaderattendance
4. 4.

   a mental representation

   “I tried to describe his appearance to the police”

   Broaderrepresentation

   Narrowerillusionthree-Dfront
5. 5.

   the act of appearing in public view

   “the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period”

   “it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America”

   Antonymsdisappearance

   Broaderarrival

   Narrowerapparitionemergencereappearance
6. 6.

   pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression

   “they try to keep up appearances”

   “that ceremony is just for show”

   Synonymsshow

   Broaderpretense

Other forms of appearance

plural

appearances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appearance

What does appearance mean?

appearance means "outward or visible aspect of a person or thing". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appearance?

appearance has 3 syllables: ap-pear-ance. The stress falls on "pear". In IPA it is /əˈpɪɹəns/.

What is another word for appearance?

Close synonyms include visual aspect, appearing, coming into court, show. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of appearance?

The recorded antonyms are disappearance, disappearance.

Is appearance a common word?

appearance is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appearance?

2 words rhyme with appearance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.