A Topical Dictionary: Search for semblance

Dictionary Results For "semblance" [?]/[OPML]

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Noun

likeness, similarity

Translations

Finnish: ulkonäkö

Portuguese: semelhança

fr:semblance io:semblance hu:semblance ta:semblance te:semblance vi:semblance

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet 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]

Moby Dictionary
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