Definition of Seeming

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Seeming

of Seem

Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

Apprehension; judgment.

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Seeming Quotations

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
Catherine Deneuve

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
Richard Le Gallienne

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.
David Amram

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Leland Stanford

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher Fry

Seeming Translations

seeming in French is paraissant
seeming in German is anscheinend, scheinbar, scheinend
seeming in Swedish is skenbar, synbar

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