facially

Meanings

adverbfacially (not comparable)

not comparableUsing or involving the face.
"The results showed that women were significantly more facially expressive than men for all emotion clips."
2012, Janet Shibley Hyde, Nicole Else-Quest, Half the Human Experience
especiallynot comparablelawIn a facial manner; on its face; as something appears to an initial impression, prior to a deeper analysis.
Near-synonym: superficially
3 more examples
If a judicial authorization is facially valid, the party challenging it will have the burden of proving that it was invalid.
[I]t is no answer to a claim of discrimination from a litigant in a wheelchair to say that everyone is expected to climb the stairs in front of a courthouse to have their day in Court, and that the wheelchair-bound litigant was treated no differently than anyone else. Facially neutral legislation can be discriminatory [...]
2023 July 7, Justice Anne MacTavish, “Haynes v. Canada (Attorney General), 2023 FCA 158”, in CanLII, retrieved 27 Oct 2024
An independent forensic accountant found evidence of gross financial mismanagement while Hegseth was administering two small nonprofits. This information is redundant evidence of what is facially obvious: his unreadiness to manage the Pentagon’s almost $900 billion budget […]
2025 January 24, George F. Will, “There are ample reasons, not about his personal life, for rejecting Hegseth. Opinion”, in Washington Post
Synonyms: superficially

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

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