Word.ws English Dictionary

apparence

apparence is the alternative form of apparency.

Meaning of apparency

Noun

apparency (countable and uncountable, plural apparencies)

  1. The quality of being apparent; apparentness.
    • the non-apparency of either or both being accounted for by the disproportion of our senses1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend
  2. (obsolete) Appearance.
  3. The position of being heir apparent.

Forms of apparence

pluralapparences

Origin of apparence

From Middle English apparence, from Middle French aparence, from Latin appārentia. Doublet of apparency and appearance.

Questions about apparence

What is apparence the alternative form of?
Apparence is the alternative form of apparency.

Words near apparence in the dictionary

  1. apparellings
  2. apparells
  3. apparelment
  4. apparelments
  5. apparels
  6. apparence
  7. apparences
  8. apparencies
  9. apparency
  10. apparent
  11. apparent brightness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apparence (page history and authors); apparency (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “apparence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/apparence. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.