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semblance


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.

noun

  1. outward appearance, esp without any inner substance or reality
  2. a resemblance or copy

n.c.1300, “fact of appearing to view,” from Old French semblance, from semblant “likeness, appearance,” present participle of sembler “to seem, appear,” from Latin simulare “to resemble, imitate,” from similis “like” (see similar (adj.)). Meaning “person’s appearance or demeanor” is attested from c.1400; that of “false, assumed or deceiving appearance” is from 1590s. Meaning “person or thing that resembles another” is attested from 1510s.

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