Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun semblance

3 senses of semblance

Sense 1
semblance, gloss, color, colour -- (an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color")
       => appearance, visual aspect -- (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

Sense 2
illusion, semblance -- (an erroneous mental representation)
       => appearance -- (a mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police")

Sense 3
likeness, semblance -- (picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing)
       => picture, image, icon, ikon -- (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them")