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ostensibility
noun
The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.
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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.”
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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.
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