Seeming vs Visible - What's the difference?
seeming | visible | Related terms |
apparent
* Shakespeare
outward appearance
* 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ""
(obsolete) apprehension; judgement
Able to be seen.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title=
Seeming is a related term of visible.
As adjectives the difference between seeming and visible
is that seeming is apparent while visible is able to be seen.As a verb seeming
is .As a noun seeming
is outward appearance.seeming
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- seeming friendship
- 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)- 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
- Nothing more clear unto their seeming . — Hooker.
- His persuasive words, impregned / With reason, to her seeming . — Milton.
Derived terms
* seemingness * seeminglyvisible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close