Seeming

Definition: Seeming

Seeming

Adjective

1. Appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty".

Date "seeming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Seeming

Synonyms: apparent(a) (adj), ostensible (adj), seeming(a) (adj). (additional references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

The hopeless dream of being--not seeming, but being (Persona; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)

And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days (The Jerk; writing credit: Steve Martin; Carl Gottlieb)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Bible Difficulties and Seeming Contradictions (reference) Cancer's Seeming Madness: God's Story (reference) Seeming, Being and Becoming (reference) Seeming, being, and becoming : acting in our century (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Alexander Pope	Men should be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot; To speak, tho sure, with seeming diffidence.
Author Unknown	The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.
Jeremy Collier	Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
William Shakespeare	A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a very good grace, but without seeming really at all ashamed of what he had done
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Let me go forward, and follow me like that, without seeming to.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Israel and the occupied territories	Such remarks included some seeming to support the Kach-Kahane Chai terrorist movement and some supporting the transfer of Israeli Arab citizens to other countries. (references)
Economic History	Japan	Japan's distribution system is complex, labor-intensive, and filled with seeming redundancy. (references)
	Bahrain	Despite these seeming good times, budgetary pressure continues to mount -- driven by the growing population's demand for state-provided services. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Seeming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.80% of the time. "Seeming" is used about 451 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	91.8%	414	13,664
Adjective (general or positive)	7.76%	35	58,339
Noun (proper)	0.44%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	451	N/A

Expression using "seeming": seeming friend. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "seeming": seeming-innocent.
	Ending with "seeming": arbitrary-seeming, authentic-seeming, busy-seeming, complex-seeming, desperate-seeming, endless-seeming, english-seeming, enormous-seeming, fair-seeming, futile-seeming, gallant-seeming, glamorous-seeming, human-seeming, idle-seeming, inexhaustible-seeming, informal-seeming, innocent-seeming, insignificant-seeming, intelligent-seeming, juvenile-seeming, light-seeming, masculine-seeming, mild-seeming, naked-seeming, ordinary-seeming, oriental-seeming, outward-seeming, promising-seeming, radical-seeming, rural-seeming, safest-seeming, sneaky-seeming, soft-seeming, still-seeming, stone-cold-sober-seeming, three-hours-seeming, true-seeming, well-seeming, young-seeming.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "seeming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		në dukje (apparently, flashily), gjoja (allegedly, as if, as though, in a way, mock, ostensibly, professedly, quasi, supposing, would be). (various references)

Arabic		‏ما يسمى (so called, supposedly), ‏واضح (apparent, bold, broad, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plump, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, sharp, specific, transparent, trenchant, visible), ‏ظاهر (apparent, conspicuous, evident, evidential, manifest, obvious, outstanding, patent, visible), ‏بين (amidst, among, articulate, between, bring to light, broad, distinct, elucidate, evident, explicit, express, indicate, inter alia, midst, obvious, ostensible, overt, self evident, set forth, show, through, unequivocal). (various references)

Bulgarian		мним (make believe, mock, ostensible, professed, quasi-, supposed), привиден (colorable, colourable, factitious, fictitious, formal, left handed, ostensible, ostentatious, outward, phantom, put on, superficial, token). (various references)

Chinese		好似 (seem, Seemed). (various references)

Czech		zdánlivý (apparent, ostensible, specious, unreal). (various references)

Farsi		نمایان (Dominant, Egregious, Ostensible, Visible), زیباءی (Beauty, Glee, Grace, Pulchritude, Sheen), جلوه (Bravery, Display, Flash, Luster, Parade, Show, Showing, Sight), ظاهری (Exterior, Outward, Outwards, Superficial, Surface), ظاهرنما. (various references)

Finnish		näennäinen (apparent, ostensible). (various references)

French		soi-disant (self-styled), paraissant, apparent (semblance). (various references)

German		scheinbar (apparent, apparently, feigned, formal, imaginary, ostensible, ostensive, seemingly). (various references)

Greek		φαινόμενοσ (apparent), φαινομενικόσ (apparent, ostensible, phenomenal). (various references)

Hungarian		látszólagos (apparent, illusory, ostensible, supposed, virtual). (various references)

Italian		apparente (apparent, ostensible). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		見せ掛け (pose), せん断箱 (really, shear box, so, which reminds me ..), 上辺 (exterior, outside, outward appearance, surface, the upper side). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そう (really, so), うわべ (exterior, outside, outward appearance, surface), みせかけ (pose). (various references)

Korean		보임 (Displaying). (various references)

Manx		soylagh (matching, resembling, virtual). (various references)

Pig Latin		eemingsay.(various references)

Portuguese		suposto (assumed, pretended, reputed, self-styled, so-called, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, would-be), aparente (apparent, ostensible, outside, outward). (various references)

Romanian		simulat (assumed, feigned, feint, mimic), prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, sham, squeamish, treacherous), aparent (apparent, apparently, conspicuous, evident, ostensible, seemingly, sham, specious, visible), aşa-zis (repute, self-styled, so called, would be). (various references)

Russian		кажущийся (apparent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		po izgledu. (various references)

Spanish		apariencia (appearance, illusion, likelihood, likeliness, look, outside, pretence, pretense, probability, semblance, shell, show, varnish, veneer), aparente (apparent, apparently, ostensible, seemingly, seems). (various references)

Swedish		synbar (apparent, ostensible, visible), skenbar (apparent, colorable, colourable, ostensible). (various references)

Thai		ตามที่ปรากฏ (seemingly). (various references)

Turkish		gibi görünen, görünen (appearing, ostensible, outward, visible), görünüşteki (would be). (various references)

Ukrainian		удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), видимість (apparition, appearance, ostensibility, seeing, semblance, visibility, visual range), видимий (apparent, conspicuous, discernible, distinguishable, observable, outward, penetrable, seeable, viewable, visible), зовнішність (exterior, externality, front, guise, mien, outside, outward, person, physique, semblance, surface). (various references)

Vietnamese		lá mặt (double, double-minded), làm ra vẻ (assumed), có vẻ, bề ngoài (aspect, exterior, face, glossy, outside, superficies, veneer). (various references)

Welsh		ymddan.gosiadol (apparent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 1, Verse 22
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	FaskonteV einai sofoi emwranqhsan
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dicentes enim se esse sapientes stulti facti sunt
Old English	990	West Saxon	Þeah þe hi geanwyrdon wis to beonne, wurðon hi dwæs
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For thei `seiynge that hem silf weren wise, thei weren maad foolis.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	When they couted them selves wyse they became foles and turned the glory of the immortall god vnto the similitude of the ymage of mortall man and of byrdes and foure foted beastes and of serpentes.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Romans Chapter 1, Verse 22
Cebuano	Sa ilang pagpakamakinaadmanon, nahimo hinoon silang mga boang,
Chinese	自稱為聰明、反成了愚拙、
Croatian	Gradeæi se mudrima, poludješe i
Danish	Idet de påstode at være vise, bleve de Dårer
Dutch	Zich uitgevende voor wijzen, zijn zij dwaas geworden;
Finnish	Kehuessaan viisaita olevansa he ovat tyhmiksi tulleet
French	Se vantant d`être sages, ils sont devenus fous;
German	Da sie sich für Weise hielten, sind sie zu Narren geworden
Haitian Creole	Y'ap mache di se moun lespri yo ye. Men, se fou yo fin fou.
Hungarian	Magokat bölcseknek vallván, balgatagokká lettek;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Mereka merasa diri bijaksana, padahal mereka bodoh.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dengan mengaku dirinya bijak, maka mereka itu menjadi bodoh,
Italian	Mentre si dichiaravano sapienti, sono diventati stolti
Maori	I a ratou e mea ana he mohio ratou, na ka wairangi,
Norwegian	Mens de gjorde sig til av å være vise, blev de dårer,
Portuguese	Dizendo-se sábios, tornaram-se estultos,
Rumanian	S`au fqlit cq sknt knyelepyi, wi au knebunit;
Russian	ОБЪЩЧБС УЕВС НХДТЩНЙ, ПВЕЪХНЕМЙ,
Shuar	Tura ti nekajai Tuíniayat Enentáimcha Núnin ajasarai.
Spanish	Profesando ser sabios se hicieron fatuos,
Swahili	Wanajidai kuwa wenye hekima, kumbe ni wapumbavu.
Swedish	När de berömde sig av att vara visa, blevo de dårar
Uma	Ra'uli' pante-ra. Ntaa' wojo-radi!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "seeming": seemingly, seemings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "seeming": beseeming, unbeseeming. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Seeming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esenin, leeming, Seanin, seeeing, seeings, Seeling, seeman, Seemann, Seemings, seering, seijin, Selemani, Semang, semein, semien, semin, Semino, Semlin, Semoigne, sening, shebeening, Shemin, siu-ming, steming. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "seeming" (pronounced sē"ming)
4	-ē" m i ng	beaming, dreaming, gleaming, redeeming, scheming, screaming, steaming, streaming, teaming, teeming.
3	-m i ng	acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, stemming, storming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-s"
	-1 letter: genies, seeing, signee.
	-2 letters: genes, genie, mense, mesne, miens, mines, neems, segni, seine, semen, sengi, siege, singe.
	-3 letters: egis, emes, engs, gees, gems, gene, gens, gien, gies, gins, megs, mien, migs, mine, mise, neem, nims, seem, seen, seme, semi, sene, sign, sine, sing.
	-4 letters: eme, ems, eng, ens, gee, gem, gen, gie, gin, ins.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-s"
	+1 letter: meetings, meninges, regimens, seemings, smeeking.
	+2 letters: bemingles, beseeming, enmeshing, esteeming, geminates, magnesite, magnetise, meringues, regiments, seemingly.
	+3 letters: besmearing, bigeminies, designment, eigenmodes, embeddings, endogamies, evangelism, gaminesses, genteelism, geomancies, germanizes, germinates, greenmails, grimnesses, hegemonies, hegumenies, homogenies, homogenise, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, magnetites, magnetizes, menageries, menologies, metheglins, misdeeming, miskeeping, mismeeting, monogenies, reimagines, resembling, resmelting, schmeering, segmenting, steamering, tempesting, xenogamies.
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Seeming

Definition: Seeming

Seeming

Adjective

Synonyms: Seeming

Crosswords: Seeming

Modern Usage: Seeming

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Seeming

Books

Digital Photo Gallery: Seeming

Familiar Quotations: Seeming

Alexander Pope

Author Unknown

Jeremy Collier

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: Seeming

Emma

Austen, Jane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Seeming

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Economic History

Japan

Bahrain

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Seeming

Expressions: Seeming

Modern Translation: Seeming

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Bible Trace: Seeming

Matched Bible Translations: Seeming

Derivations & Misspellings: Seeming

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Seeming"

Anagrams: Seeming

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