apparency

• apparence

From Middle English apparancie, from Latin appārentia.^[1] Doublet of apparence and appearance.

apparency (countable and uncountable, plural apparencies)

1. The quality of being apparent; apparentness.
   • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:

     the non-apparency of either or both being accounted for by the disproportion of our senses

2. (obsolete) Appearance.
3. The position of being heir apparent.

• latency

• “apparency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.