Word Games Pro Dictionary
ostensibility
noun
The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.
Quick reference
Word Facts
Listen
Audio Pronunciation
Audio pronunciation is unavailable for this word.
Meaning
Definitions
noun
The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.
“They reveal the ostensibility of this systematic order, or point out that it is in fact only temporary and exists on the basis of a more fundamental instability.”
In context
Example Sentences
They reveal the ostensibility of this systematic order, or point out that it is in fact only temporary and exists on the basis of a more fundamental instability.