facially
adv/ˈfeɪʃəli/ · /ˈfeɪʃli/
Etymology From facial + -ly.
1
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:
2
Law Especially 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.
2 more examples
- [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:
- Derived terms
- exofacially
- Related terms
- in someone's face