Semblance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Semblance \Sem"blance\, n. [F. See {Semblable}, a.]
     1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
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              Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were.
                                                    --Fairfax.


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     2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as,
        the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
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              Only semblances or imitations of shells. --Woodward.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  semblance
       n 1: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately
            misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance
            of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the
            gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a
            different color" [syn: {gloss}, {color}, {colour}]
       2: an erroneous mental representation [syn: {illusion}]
       3: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
          [syn: {likeness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  215 Moby Thesaurus words for "semblance":
     Prospero, accordance, acting, affectation, affinity, agreement,
     air, airiness, alibi, alikeness, alliance, analogy, angle, aping,
     apology, appearance, approach, approximation, aspect, assimilation,
     atmosphere, attitudinizing, aura, blind, bluff, bluffing,
     certified copy, cheating, cloak, closeness, color, coloring,
     community, companion, comparability, comparison, configuration,
     conformity, copy, copying, correspondence, counterfeit, cover,
     cover story, cover-up, dead ringer, deception, delusion,
     delusiveness, device, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling,
     dissimulation, double, duplicate, ectype, effect, effigy, eidolon,
     exact likeness, excuse, facade, face, facet, fair copy,
     faithful copy, fake, fakery, faking, fallaciousness, false air,
     false appearance, false front, false light, false show, falseness,
     falsity, fashion, feature, feel, feeling, feigning, feint, fellow,
     figure, forgery, form, four-flushing, fraud, front, gestalt, gilt,
     gloss, guise, handle, humbug, humbuggery, icon, idealization,
     identity, idol, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, image,
     imago, imitation, immateriality, imposture, impression,
     lame excuse, light, likeness, likening, lineaments, living image,
     living picture, locus standi, look, magic, magic act, magic show,
     magician, manner, mask, masquerade, match, mate, meretriciousness,
     metaphor, mimicking, miniature, mirroring, model, mood, nearness,
     ostensible motive, ostentation, outward show, parallelism, parity,
     pasticcio, pastiche, phase, phasis, phony, photograph, picture,
     playacting, poor excuse, portrait, pose, posing, posture,
     prestidigitation, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation,
     public motive, put-off, reference, reflection, refuge, regard,
     representation, resemblance, respect, rubbing, sameness, screen,
     seeming, shadow, sham, shape, show, showing, side, similarity,
     simile, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, slant, sleight of hand,
     smoke screen, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, speciousness,
     spit and image, spitting image, stalking-horse, stratagem, style,
     subterfuge, total effect, trace, tracing, trick, twin, twist,
     unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, varnish, veil, veneer,
     very image, very picture, view, viewpoint, window dressing, wise