Associations to the word «Seeming»

Wiktionary

SEEMING, verb. Present participle of seem
SEEMING, adjective. Apparent
SEEMING, noun. Outward appearance
SEEMING, noun. (obsolete) apprehension; judgement

Dictionary definition

SEEMING, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats