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SEMBLANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
Synonyms:
likeness; semblance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("semblance" is a kind of...):
icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semblance"):
Identikit; Identikit picture (a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought)
portrait; portrayal (any likeness of a person, in any medium)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
Example:
the situation soon took on a different color
Synonyms:
color; colour; gloss; semblance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("semblance" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semblance"):
color of law; colour of law (a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law)
simulacrum (an insubstantial or vague semblance)
face value (the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth)
guise; pretence; pretense; pretext (an artful or simulated semblance)
camouflage; disguise (an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something)
verisimilitude (the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An erroneous mental representation
Synonyms:
illusion; semblance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("semblance" is a kind of...):
appearance (a mental representation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semblance"):
apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; 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)
