appearance

ot noun

1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye. His sudden appearance surprised me.
2. A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition. There was a strange appearance in the sky.
3. Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others. Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance.
4. That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality 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.