seeming

[seemĀ·ing]

Appearing as such but not necessarily so

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Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Seem

a.
Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

n.
Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

n.
Apprehension; judgment.


Seeming

Seem"ing, a. Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.
My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own.

Seeming

Seem"ing, n. 1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.
These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long.
2. Apprehension; judgment. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Nothing more clear unto their seeming.
His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming.

Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

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Usage Examples

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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Other Usage Examples

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

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