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Apparency

Apparency \Ap*par"en*cy\, n.

  1. Appearance. [Obs.]

  2. Apparentness; state of being apparent.
    --Coleridge.

  3. The position of being heir apparent.

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apparency

n. 1 The quality of being apparent; apparentness. 2 (context obsolete English) appearance 3 The position of being heir apparent.

WordNet
apparency

n. the property of being apparent [syn: apparentness]

Usage examples of "apparency".

The apparency is, the imperials are not personally committed to this fight, and their morale is flabby.

All I did was take advantage of a cautionary theorem in Advanced Symbolic Logic: The apparency of an answer can be mistaken for the answer.

A parallel is that the apparency of a result can be mistaken for the result.

As he approached the ground, it seemed to accelerate toward him, a false apparency they'd been warned about.

However, during a banquet Mortiiy, possibly stimulated with strong drink, took his father, Cling, to task on the outrageous accusation that Cling, not liking the eldest brother, had connived to have him murdered under the apparency of the air-limousine accident.

The apparency is that, a rather long time ago, each technite area was struck by a large, more or less coherent radioactive mass from space.

The apparency was of quadruple primaries near enough for a four-way tidal sharing of plasma, a situation which seemed physically impossible.

He was to seem marginally retarded, providing an apparency of harmlessness.

I grew aware of all the bustle and tumult which went on beneath the apparency of peace and stillness-the subterranean labour of dissolution which ceases not for night or day-the toil of worms and beetles and moles in the service of time and change, and the merchantry of necrophores in the underground city of death.