facially
Using or involving the face.
Adverb
- Using 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:
- 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.
- [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...
Synonyms: superficially
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin faciālisbor. English facial Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English facially From facial + -ly.