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image vs appearance

appearance vs image

image and appearance both are nouns.

image is a verb but appearance is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
image Yes No Yes No
appearance Yes No No No
As nouns, appearance is a hypernym of image; that is, appearance is a word with a broader meaning than image:
  • image: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
  • appearance: outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
Other hypernyms of image include visual aspect.
image (noun) appearance (noun)
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface the act of appearing in public view
a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
an iconic mental representation a mental representation
a standard or typical example the event of coming into sight
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
image (verb) appearance (verb)
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
render visible, as by means of MRI
Difference between image and appearance

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