rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being apparent or evident; obviousness.
1583. Golding, Calv. on Deut., clxxxv. 1151. The apparantnes … was so great, that it needed not any great reason to conceive it.
1611. Cotgr., Eminence, eminencie, excellencie, apparantnesse.
1731. Bailey, Apparentness, plainness to be seen. [In mod. Dicts.]
