SEEMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seeming mean? 

• SEEMING (adjective)
  The adjective SEEMING has 1 sense:

1. appearing as such but not necessarily so

  Familiarity information: SEEMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEEMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appearing as such but not necessarily so

Synonyms:

apparent; ostensible; seeming

Context example:

his seeming honesty

Similar:

superficial (concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually)

 Context examples 

At first he scarcely said anything; his looks only expressed his extreme surprise and vexation, and he walked to the gate and stood there, without seeming to know what to do.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Emma was half-ashamed of her friend for seeming so pleased and so doubtful.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And as condition, in his eyes, had the seeming of form, so he entered into what had been wall to him and bathed in the substance that composed it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The absolute necessity of seeming like herself produced then an immediate struggle; but after a while she could do no more.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Why, to be sure, said he, seeming to recollect himself, people have little, have very little in their power.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, after seeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began to come towards us, and to grow and grow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He lies on the sofa hardly seeming to breathe, and his whole body appears in collapse.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In another minute, Mr. Bingley, but without seeming to have noticed what passed, took leave and rode on with his friend.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Without speaking, without smiling, without seeming to recognise in me a human being, he only twined my waist with his arm and riveted me to his side.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was very pretty then, but to me it is much prettier now, for in this seeming blemishes I read a little history.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)