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Seeming vs Perceivable - What's the difference?

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Seeming is a related term of perceivable.


As adjectives the difference between seeming and perceivable

is that seeming is apparent while perceivable is capable of being perceived; discernible.

As a verb seeming

is .

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

    perceivable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being perceived; discernible.
  • *1818 , , Northanger Abbey , ch. 5,
  • *:Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable .
  • *2003 , " Man in Pakistan: I'm on list," USA Today , 1 Jan. (retrieved 2 Nov. 2008),
    • The only perceivable difference between the AP and FBI photos is that the man in the FBI photo is clean-shaven and shorter-haired.

    Synonyms

    *perceptible, observable

    Derived terms

    * perceivableness *perceivability *perceivably