seeming
26
4.7
- adjective
- /ˈsiːmɪŋ/
- I don't fault that; it was her seeming inability to see the consequences of her statements.
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Examples
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For there was a seeming chaos of books, maps, magazines, and papers.
Fiction book (1996) -
And how do I approach that without seeming weird?
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The seeming reality of any instant comes from the past and the future.
Academic text (2001) -
And you know, it's a seeming paradox.
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The survey alluded to a seeming tension between ethnic and elite perceptions of threat.
Academic text (1992) -
The sound was mystifying, a seeming amalgam of the past century's greatest moments.
Blog text (9) -
Some commented on the seeming irrationality of American idiom and the humorous pitfalls awaiting an unwary Filipino conversationalist.
Academic text (1990) -
Her success was a seeming result of luck rather than hard work.
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Despite their seeming happiness, he could sense that something was wrong.
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The project had a seeming simplicity that masked its underlying complexity.
Synonyms
145
3.6
Seeming to be true but possibly false
12
7.0
Seeming to be real but not really there
6
7.5
Seeming to be true but maybe not real
Antonyms
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Seeming comes from the old verb seem, which means 'to appear' or 'look like'. So if something is 'seeming' it only 'appears' that way and might not be real.