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Seeming vs Seems - What's the difference?

seeming | seems |

As verbs the difference between seeming and seems

is that seeming is while seems is (seem).

As an adjective seeming

is apparent.

As a noun seeming

is outward appearance.

seeming

English

Verb

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    • 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

    seems

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