semblance
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bləns noun
1.
outward aspect or appearance.
2.
an assumed or unreal appearance; show.
3.
the slightest appearance or trace.
4.
a likeness, image, or copy.
5.
a spectral appearance; apparition.
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| —n | |
| 1. | outward appearance, esp without any inner substance or reality |
| 2. | a resemblance or copy |
| [C13: from Old French, from sembler to seem, from Latin simulāre to imitate, from similis like] | |
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Word Origin & History
semblance
c.1300, "fact of appearing to view," from O.Fr. semblance, semblant "likeness, appearance," from sembler "to seem, appear," from L. simulare "to resemble, imitate," from similis "like" (see similar). Meaning "person's appearance or demeanor" is attested from c.1400; that
of "false, assumed or deceiving appearance" is from 1599. Meaning "person or thing that resembles another" is attested from 1513.
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Example sentences
Merit pay is dream without details, facts or any semblance or reality.
It is fine to imagine a complex system, constructed by an engineer, that could achieve some semblance of metabolism.
The reading students are required to do for school bears little semblance to the reading they do outside of school.
Because they know that these people will never bother to read a book, or attempt to operate with a semblance of objectivity.
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