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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Natural appearance; relative truth to nature in the delineation of physical objects. The term was coined by H. Spencer to express all those traits in a picture which concern the physical appearances of the objects represented: distinguished from the conception, composition, sentiment, expression, etc., of the picture. [See the extract.]
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