Meaning of appearance in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.

  Example: His sudden appearance surprised me.

• A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.

  Example: There was a strange appearance in the sky.

• The way something looks; personal presence

• Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.

  Example: Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance.

• That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality

  Example: Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physical appearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ.

• The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.

  Example: A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.

• An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance

• Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

  Example: The patient had a small bowel obstruction and there was no appearance until after the obstruction resolved.