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Seeming vs Feigned - What's the difference?

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Seeming is a related term of feigned.


As verbs the difference between seeming and feigned

is that seeming is while feigned is (feign).

As adjectives the difference between seeming and feigned

is that seeming is apparent while feigned is being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.

As a noun seeming

is outward appearance.

seeming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • apparent
    • seeming friendship
  • * Shakespeare
    • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • outward appearance
  • * 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ""
    • And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting / On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; / And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, / And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor
  • (obsolete) apprehension; judgement
    • Nothing more clear unto their seeming . — Hooker.
    His persuasive words, impregned / With reason, to her seeming . — Milton.

    Derived terms

    * seemingness * seemingly

    feigned

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
    • 1841' ''"I have passed my word," said Jowl with '''feigned reluctance, "and I'll keep it. When does this match come off? I wish it was over. -- To-night?"'' — Charles Dickens, ''The Old Curiosity Shop , Chapter 9.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (feign)

    • Anagrams

    * feeding