seeming or stated to be real or true, when this is perhaps not the case synonym apparent表面的;宣称的;假托的 Oxford Collocations DictionaryOstensible is used with these nouns:- reason
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin ostensibilis from Latin ostens- ‘stretched out to view’, from the verb ostendere, from ob- ‘in view of’ + tendere ‘to stretch’.