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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seem \Seem\ (s[=e]m), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Seemed} (s[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Seeming}.] [OE. semen to seem, to become, befit, AS. s[=e]man to satisfy, pacify; akin to Icel. s[ae]ma to honor, to bear with, conform to, s[ae]mr becoming, fit, s[=o]ma to beseem, to befit, sama to beseem, semja to arrange, settle, put right, Goth. samjan to please, and to E. same. The sense is probably due to the adjective seemly. [root]191. See {Same}, adjective, and cf. {Seemly}.] To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as. ''It now seemed probable.'' --Macaulay.
Thou picture of what thou seem'st. --Shak.
All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all. --Milton.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death. --Prov. xiv. 12.
{It seems}, it appears; it is understood as true; it is said.
A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake. --Addison.
Syn: To appear; look.
Usage: {Seem}, {Appear}. To appear has reference to a thing's being presented to our view; as, the sun appears; to seem is connected with the idea of semblance, and usually implies an inference of our mind as to the probability of a thing's being so; as, a storm seems to be coming. ''The story appears to be true,'' means that the facts, as presented, go to show its truth; ''the story seems to be true,'' means that it has the semblance of being so, and we infer that it is true. ''His first and principal care being to appear unto his people such as he would have them be, and to be such as he appeared.'' --Sir P. Sidney.
Ham. Ay, madam, it is common. Queen. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not ''seems.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seeming \Seem"ing\, adjective Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.
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. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seeming \Seem"ing\, noun
1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.
These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. --Shak.
2. Apprehension; judgment. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Nothing more clear unto their seeming. --Hooker.
His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {apparent(a)}, {ostensible}, {seeming(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
205 Moby Thesaurus words for "seeming": Barmecidal, Barmecide, Prospero, acting, affectation, airiness, airy, alleged, angle, apparent, apparitional, appearance, appearing, aspect, assumed, attitudinizing, autistic, bearing, bluff, bluffing, cheating, chimeric, color, colorable, colored, coloring, configuration, cortical, deception, deceptive, delusion, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusiveness, delusory, demeanor, dereistic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dreamlike, dreamy, effect, eidolon, epidermic, erroneous, evident, exomorphic, exterior, exteriority, external, externality, externalness, extrinsic, extrinsicality, facade, face, facet, fakery, faking, fallacious, fallaciousness, false, false air, false appearance, false face, false front, false light, false show, falseness, falsity, fantastic, fashion, feature, feigned, feigning, feint, figure, foreignness, form, four-flushing, fraud, fringe, front, gestalt, gilded, gilt, gloss, guise, humbug, humbuggery, idealization, illusion, illusional, illusionary, illusionism, illusionist, illusive, illusiveness, illusory, image, imaginary, imago, immateriality, imposture, impression, light, likeness, lineaments, look, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, manner, masquerade, meretricious, meretriciousness, mien, misleading, open, openness, ostensible, ostentation, out, outer, outermost, outerness, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward appearance, outward show, outward-facing, outwardness, peripheral, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phase, phasis, plausible, playacting, pose, posing, posture, prestidigitation, pretended, pretense, pretension, pretext, professed, public, purported, reference, regard, representation, respect, roundabout, self-deceptive, self-deluding, semblance, shallowness, sham, shape, show, showing, side, simulacrum, simulation, slant, sleight of hand, so-called, sorcerer, sorcery, specious, specious appearance, speciousness, spectral, style, superficial, superficiality, supposititious, surface, tinsel, total effect, twist, unactual, unactuality, unfounded, unreal, unreality, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, varnish, view, viewpoint, visible, visionary, window dressing, wise
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