appearential

appearential

English

Etymology

From appearency.

Adjective

appearential (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or pertaining to appearency; superficial; apparent; outwardly evident.
   • 1985, David Popenoe, "Private Pleasure, Public Plight: Urban Development, Suburban Sprawl, and the Decline of Community", Transaction Publishers, Page 118

     And just as important as these appearential codes was the fact that the relationship among the different types of people was very closely regulated by social norms.

   • 1982, William R. McKenna, "Husserl’s Introductions to Phenomenology: Interpretation and Critique", Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 67

     What I call the appearential inadequacy of perception is the inability, as it were, of any of the possible perceptions of a thing, of a feature of a thing, or more generally, of anything spatially extended, to give that entity directly, without the mediation of an appearance.