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the child nodded, apparently content with the promise
Used by speakers or writers to avoid committing themselves to the truth of what they are saying
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foreign ministers met but apparently failed to make progress
Web Definitions:
from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor"
obviously: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some ...
(apparentness) the property of being apparent
Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently; Seemingly; in appearance only; According to what the speaker has read or been told