seeming

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: seem=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

seeming, 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 sorrow, it is sure your own."  [1913 Webster]

seeming, n. 

•  Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.  [1913 Webster]

  "These keep
  Seeming and savor all the winter long."  [1913 Webster]
•  Apprehension; judgment.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

  "Nothing more clear unto their seeming."  [1913 Webster]

  "His persuasive words, impregned
  With reason, to her seeming."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

seeming, adj.
1 apparent but perhaps not real (with seeming sincerity).
2 apparent only; ostensible (the seeming and the real; seeming-virtuous).

Derivative

seemingly adv.

seeming, n. literary 1 appearance, aspect.
2 deceptive appearance.

THESAURUS

seeming

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

ROGET THESAURUS

seeming

Appearance

N appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil, lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau, display, exposure, mise en sc ne, rising of the curtain, phantasm, phantom, pageant, spectacle, peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show, ombres chinoises, magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views, biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures, panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama, coup de theatre, jeu de theatre, pageantry, insignia, aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming, shape, guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor, presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing, point of view, light, lineament feature trait lines, outline, outside, contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy, outside, apparent, seeming, ostensible, on view, apparently, to all seeming, to all appearance, ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie, at the first blush, at first sight, in the eyes of, to the eye, editio princeps, appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil, lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau, display, exposure, mise en sc ne, rising of the curtain, phantasm, phantom, pageant, spectacle, peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show, ombres chinoises, magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views, biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures, panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama, coup de theatre, jeu de theatre, pageantry, insignia, aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming, shape, guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor, presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing, point of view, light, lineament feature trait lines, outline, outside, contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy, outside, apparent, seeming, ostensible, on view, apparently, to all seeming, to all appearance, ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie, at the first blush, at first sight, in the eyes of, to the eye, editio princeps.