Seeming

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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.