Seeming, 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.
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Seeming, 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.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for seeming; he lists it under apparent, pretense.
Where he writes about it:
Seeming expresses great doubt of the reality; seeming innocence comes very near in meaning to probable guilt. — from apparent
Apparent indicates less assurance than probable, and more than seeming. — from apparent
A man's probable intent we believe will prove to be his real intent; his seeming intent we believe to be a sham; his apparent intent may be the true one, tho we have not yet evidence on which to pronounce with certainty or even with confidence. — from apparent