seeming

seeming
Synonyms and related words:
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Prospero, acting, affectation, airiness, airy, alleged, angle, apparent, apparitional, appearance, appearing, aspect, assumed, attitudinizing, autistic, bearing, bluff, bluffing, cheating, chimeric, color, colorable, colored, coloring, configuration, cortical, deception, deceptive, delusion, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusiveness, delusory, demeanor, dereistic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dreamlike, dreamy, effect, eidolon, epidermic, erroneous, evident, exomorphic, exterior, exteriority, external, externality, externalness, extrinsic, extrinsicality, facade, face, facet, fakery, faking, fallacious, fallaciousness, FALSE, false air, false appearance, false face, false front, false light, false show, falseness, falsity, fantastic, fashion, feature, feigned, feigning, feint, figure, foreignness, form, four-flushing, fraud, fringe, front, gestalt, gilded, gilt, gloss, guise, humbug, humbuggery, idealization, illusion, illusional, illusionary, illusionism, illusionist, illusive, illusiveness, illusory, image, imaginary, imago, immateriality, imposture, impression, light, likeness, lineaments, look, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, manner, masquerade, meretricious, meretriciousness, mien, misleading, open, openness, ostensible, ostentation, out, outer, outermost, outerness, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward appearance, outward show, outward-facing, outwardness, peripheral, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phase, phasis, plausible, playacting, pose, posing, posture, prestidigitation, pretended, pretense, pretension, pretext, professed, public, purported, reference, regard, representation, respect, roundabout, self-deceptive, self-deluding, semblance, shallowness, sham, shape, show, showing, side, simulacrum, simulation, slant, sleight of hand, so-called, sorcerer, sorcery, specious, specious appearance, speciousness, spectral, style, superficial, superficiality, supposititious, surface, tinsel, total effect, twist, unactual, unactuality, unfounded, unreal, unreality, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, varnish, view, viewpoint, visible, visionary, window dressing, wise

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  • Seeming — Seem ing, a. Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth. [1913 Webster] My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Seeming — Seem ing, n. 1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. [1913 Webster] These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Apprehension; judgment. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Nothing more clear unto… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • seeming — [sēm′iŋ] adj. that seems real, true, etc. without necessarily being so; apparent [her seeming anger] n. outward appearance; semblance seemingly adv …   English World dictionary

  • seeming — index apparent (presumptive), colorable (plausible), constructive (inferential), deceptive, ostensible …   Law dictionary

  • seeming — (adj.) late 14c., prp. adjective from SEEM (Cf. seem). Seemingly in sense of to all appearances recorded from 1590s …   Etymology dictionary

  • seeming — *apparent, illusory, ostensible Analogous words: *plausible, specious, credible: dissembling, disguising, masking, cloaking, camouflaging (see DISGUISE) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • seeming — [adj] apparent appearing, illusive, illusory, ostensible, outward, professed, quasi , semblant, specious, surface; concepts 487,573 Ant. real, true …   New thesaurus

  • seeming — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ appearing to be real or true; apparent. DERIVATIVES seemingly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • seeming — [[t]si͟ːmɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n (vagueness) Seeming means appearing to be the case, but not necessarily the case. For example, if you talk about someone s seeming ability to do something, you mean that they appear to be able to do it, but you are not …   English dictionary

  • seeming — 1. adj. 1 apparent but perhaps not real (with seeming sincerity). 2 apparent only; ostensible (the seeming and the real; seeming virtuous). Derivatives: seemingly adv. 2. n. literary 1 appearance, aspect. 2 deceptive appearance …   Useful english dictionary

  • seeming — /ˈsimɪŋ/ (say seeming) adjective 1. apparent; appearing to be such (whether truly or falsely): a seeming advantage. –noun 2. appearance, especially outward or deceptive appearance. –seemingly, adverb …  

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