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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being apparent; plainness to the eye or to the mind; visibleness; obviousness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness.

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  • noun The state or quality of being apparent.

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  • noun the property of being apparent

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Examples

  • But this isn't about water bottles, this is about the apparentness of how difficult it really is to fully commit to an elevated belief system and consistently apply it your life, no matter your intentions.

    Cocoa Popps: I AM: The Film, the Message and... Water Bottles? Cocoa Popps 2011

  • But this isn't about water bottles, this is about the apparentness of how difficult it really is to fully commit to an elevated belief system and consistently apply it your life, no matter your intentions.

    Cocoa Popps: I AM: The Film, the Message and... Water Bottles? Cocoa Popps 2011

  • And you shall conceive how utter new was all this unto me; for there was in that Country a constant Voice of the Energy of Life, so that the World – Noise of this our Age was even there again, and with a keen and undoubted apparentness; and the more so, some ways, than now.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Hoffman and Rosenkrantz take a similar line, focusing on the perceptual apparentness of existence pluralism:

    Monism Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

  • And you shall conceive how utter new was all this unto me; for there was in that Country a constant Voice of the Energy of Life, so that the World-Noise of this our Age was even there again, and with a keen and undoubted apparentness; and the more so, some ways, than now.

    The Night Land: Chapter 9 1912

  • But this isn't about water bottles, this is about the apparentness of how difficult it really is to fully commit to an elevated belief system and consistently apply it your life, no matter your intentions.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Cocoa Popps 2011

  • Now it will take time (perhaps not as long) for the apparentness of this total bankruptcy to be unsavagable.

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2009

  • As regards a woman, for instance, the control over her body and her sexual gratification serves as an amply sufficient sign of ownership and possession to the more modest man; another with a more suspicious and ambitious thirst for possession, sees the "questionableness," the mere apparentness of such ownership, and wishes to have finer tests in order to know especially whether the woman not only gives herself to him, but also gives up for his sake what she has or would like to have -- only THEN does he look upon her as "possessed."

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

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