appear vs spring to mind

spring to mind vs appear

appear and spring to mind both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
appear	No	No	Yes	No
spring to mind	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, spring to mind is a hyponym of appear; that is, spring to mind is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than appear:

appear: come into sight or view
spring to mind: be remembered

Other hyponyms of appear include peep, erupt, manifest, wash up, come to hand, come to light, come on, come out, show up, surface, turn up, emerge, outcrop, flash, flash, turn out, basset, crop out, re-emerge, reappear, emerge, break through, come through, break through, come out, erupt, push through, roll in, come to mind, burst forth, leap out, rush out, sally out, break, show, show up, burst out, crop up, pop, pop out, pop up.

appear (verb)	spring to mind (verb)
come into sight or view	be remembered
be issued or published
come into being or existence, or appear on the scene
appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.
give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect
(of a proposition) seem to be true, probable, or apparent
present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority

Difference between appear and spring to mind

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