Usually means: Apparent purpose, not necessarily true.
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  1. ostensibility: Merriam-Webster
  2. ostensibility: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ostensibility: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ostensibility: Wordnik
  5. ostensibility: Wiktionary
  6. Ostensibility, ostensibility: Dictionary.com
  7. Ostensibility: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. ostensibility: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Ostensibility: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. ostensibility: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. ostensibility: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Ostensibility: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ostensibility: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ostensibility)

▸ noun:  The quality of being ostensible.

Similar:
ostentatiousness, apparentness, unostentatiousness, perceptibility, visibleness, perceptibleness, manifestness, obviosity, observability, apprehensibility, more...

Opposite:
genuineness, authenticity, realness, substance

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Similar:
ostentatiousness, apparentness, unostentatiousness, perceptibility, visibleness, perceptibleness, manifestness, obviosity, observability, apprehensibility, more...

Opposite:
genuineness, authenticity, realness, substance



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