- 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"
--1 is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
--1 has particulars:color of law, colour of law; simulacrum; face value; guise, pretense, pretence, pretext; disguise, camouflage; verisimilitude - illusion, semblance - an erroneous mental representation
--2 is a kind of appearance
--2 has particulars:apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, shadow; irradiation; phantom limb - likeness, semblance - picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
--3 is a kind of picture, image, icon, ikon
--3 has particulars: Identikit, Identikit picture; portrait, portrayal