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Seemingly

[see-ming]

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adjective

apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.

noun

appearance, especially outward or deceptive appearance.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English semynge; see seem, -ing², -ing¹

Related forms

seem·ing·ly, adverb

seem·ing·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. ostensible, external, superficial. 2. semblance, face, pretense.

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Neutrinos, which speed through material seemingly undeterred, aren't affected.

The elegance of this system is that it bootstraps a seemingly unique human talent to an ancient mental process.

New research on chimpanzees may provide clues to the seemingly bizarre human habit of eating dirt.

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seemingly (ˈsiːmɪŋlɪ)

—*adv*
1.	in appearance but not necessarily in actuality: with seemingly effortless ease
2.	(sentence modifier) apparently; as far as one knows: seemingly, he had few friends left

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"If you have ever watched an artist constructing with bits of cold stone a beautiful living picture you know that he works faithfully and carefully on the pattern from the wrong side and while he is working every inequality, every tint a little too dull is apparent to him as his picture grows, but he works on and on. And even when he finishes at last and looks down at the completed pattern he is not discouraged to see here a little crevice and there a little roughness, an open seam here, a tiny patch there where the bit of marble was too small. Now he pours his cement over it and smoothes [sic] it into every seam, and with faith puts his work to dry. Next day the pattern is turned and the perfect whole is given to view, needing only the polishing of a loving hand to make it ready to slip in place. So we should work faithfully on our pattern, cement it together with ourselves, and polish it with human kindness; and lo! the work slips into place seemingly a perfect whole."

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