seeming

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːmɪŋ

Verb

seeming

1. Present participle of seem.

Adjective

seeming (comparative more seeming, superlative most seeming)

1. apparent

   seeming friendship

   • Shakespeare

     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.

Translations

apparent

• Czech: zdánlivý (cs) m
• Esperanto: ŝajna (eo)
• Portuguese: aparente (pt)
• Russian: кажущийся (ru) (kážuščijsja)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀чит (sh), вѝдљив (sh)

  Roman: òčit (sh), vìdljiv (sh)

Noun

seeming (plural seemings)

1. outward appearance
   • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

     And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting / On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; / And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, / And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor

2. (obsolete) apprehension; judgement

   Nothing more clear unto their seeming. — Hooker.

   His persuasive words, impregned / With reason, to her seeming. — Milton.

Translations

outward appearance

• Japanese: 上辺(うわべ, uwabe), 見せ掛け(みせかけ, misekake)

Derived terms

• seemingness
• seemingly