appearance

(noun): The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
(noun): A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
(noun): The way something looks; personal presence
(noun): Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
(noun): That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
(noun): The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
(noun): An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
(noun): Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

His sudden appearance surprised me.
There was a strange appearance in the sky.
Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about my appearance.
Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physical appearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ.
A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.