What are the opposite words for all appearances?

All appearances refer to the visual or sensory evidence that someone or something portrays. The antonym of all appearances would be a falsehood, deception, or illusion. When something is not what it appears to be, it is opposite to all appearances. The word can also be replaced with antonyms like invisibility, obscurity, or intangibility to illustrate the opposite of all appearances. In some instances, an antonym of all appearances can be transparency or candor used to bring out the concept of being straightforward, which is the reverse of hiding behind a facade or pretending.

What are the antonyms for All appearances?

• adv.

  • apparently
  • dubiously
  ,
  • equivocally
  ,
  • improbably
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  • questionably
  ,
  • uncertain
  ,
  • unlikely
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  • evidently
  • doubtfully
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  • mistakably
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  • obscurely
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  • vaguely
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Famous quotes with All appearances

• These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

  Edward Sapir
• The first effect of fire is to dissolve all appearances of order.

  S.L.A. Marshall
• Behind all appearances, I divine a struggling essence. I want to merge with it. I feel that behind appearances this struggling essence is also striving to merge with my heart. But the body stands between us and separates us. The mind stands between us and separates us.

  Nikos Kazantzakis
• Like Teresa of Avila, Kazantzakis indicates that behind all appearances lies a struggling divine essence (the "Invisible") that is striving to merge with our hearts just as the mystic is striving to merge with God's.Kazantzakis defines "God" in Spain as "the Power that always gives us more than we are able to receive and always asks for more than we are able to give."

  Nikos Kazantzakis
• In early times, say the Icelandic chronicles, men from the Western Islands came to live in this country, and when they departed, left behind them crosses, bells, and other objects used in the practice of sorcery . . . In those days there was great fertility of the soil in Iceland. But when the Norsemen came to settle here, the Western sorcerers were forced to flee the land, and old writings say that Kolumkilli, determined on revenge, laid a curse on the invaders, swearing that they would never prosper here, and more in the same spirit, much of what has since, to all appearances, been fulfilled.

  Halldór Laxness

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