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单词 seeming
释义

seeming

/ˈsiːmɪŋ /
adjective
1Appearing to be real or true, but not necessarily being so; apparent: Ellen’s seeming indifference to the woman’s fate...
  • This seeming inadequacy of the real world is the crux of Shaw's enterprise.
  • Here are some of the seeming contradictions that appear in the space of just two-thirds of a USA Today page.
  • What is more illuminating is your seeming indifference to the lack of consideration paid by the BMCC Board to student issues.

Synonyms

apparent, outward, surface
pretended, feigned, specious, professed, supposed, presumed, avowed, so-called, alleged, declared, claimed, purported, ostensible
rare ostensive
1.1 [in combination] Giving the impression of having a specified quality: an angry-seeming man
noun [mass noun] literary
The outward appearance or aspect of someone or something, especially when considered as deceptive or as distinguished from reality: that dissidence between inward reality and outward seeming...
  • In the former case, on the other hand, one accepts the claims about how experience and agency seem to us but simply dismisses such seemings as illusory.
  • These seemings have narrow contents because they supervene on local properties of me and inverted-me.
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