имя существительное [литературно-книжное] 1) подобие, сходство Синоним(ы): likeness, resemblance 2) внешность, наружность; облик Синоним(ы): appearance 3) видимость Например: to make semblance — создавать видимость It was in semblance rather than in fact. — Это была больше видимость, чем реальный факт.
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from sembler to be like, seem — more at resemble 1. a. outward and often specious appearance or show; form Example: wrapped in a semblance of composure — Harry Hervey b. modicum Example: has been struggling to get some semblance of justice for his people — Bayard Rustin 2. aspect, countenance 3. a. a phantasmal form; apparition b. image, likeness 4. actual or apparent resemblance Example: her story bears some semblance to the truth