appearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

color of law, colour of law - a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law; "the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights"

simulacrum - an insubstantial or vague semblance

face value - the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth

guise, pretence, pretext, pretense - an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

camouflage, disguise - an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories"

verisimilitude - the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true

phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

appearance - a mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police"

irradiation - the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background

phantom limb - the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated

Identikit, Identikit picture - a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought

ikon, picture, icon, image - a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

portrait, portrayal - any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits"