seeming means appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual). Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 55 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SEEMING — [Adjective] Appearing to be true or real from outward observation, but not necessarily so in fact. Its roots stretch to Middle English ‘semynge’, the present participle of ‘semen’ (to seem), a word itself drawn from the Old Norse ‘söma’ (to befit) or Old English ‘sēman’ (to reconcile)—thus embedded in the acts of fitting together and making suitable. Unlike "actual" (which stakes a claim on bedrock fact) or "ostensible" (which often wears a mask of declared intent), seeming is the neutral, porous veil of perception itself. It is the calm surface of a bottomless lake, the polite smile that hides a private grief, or the solidity of a stage-prop wall—a testament to the fragile, necessary trust we place in surfaces, knowing they are all we have to navigate by.
adj
- Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual).“seeming friendship”
noun
- Outward appearance.“My loue is strengthned though more weake in seeming
I loue not lesse, thogh lesse the show appeare,”
- Apprehension; judgement.“Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,”