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facially

adv
/ˈfeɪʃəli/

Etymology

From facial + -ly.

  1. borrowed from faciālis
  2. suffixed as facially — “facial + ly”

Definitions

  1. Using or involving the face.

    • "The results showed that women were significantly more facially expressive than men for all emotion clips."

  2. In a facial manner

    In a facial manner; on its face; as something appears to an initial impression, prior to a deeper analysis.

    • Near-synonym: superficially
    • If a judicial authorization is facially valid, the party challenging it will have the burden of proving that it was invalid.

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Derived

exofacially

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for facially. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA