Ostensibility

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1. Noun

The quality or state of being ostensible.

2. Noun

The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.; "They reveal the ostensibility of this systematic order, or point out that it is in fact only temporary and exists on the basis of a more fundamental instability."
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