Word Meanings - SEEMINGNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.

Related words: (words related to SEEMINGNESS)

• SEMBLANCE
  1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax. 2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. Only semblances or imitations of
• PLAUSIBILITY
  1. Something worthy of praise. Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. E. Vaughan. 2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness. To give any plausibility to a scheme. De Quincey. 3. Anything plausible or specious. R. Browning.
• APPEARANCE
  The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or
• IMPLAUSIBILITY
  Want of plausibility; the quality of being implausible.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• VRAISEMBLANCE
  The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
• NONAPPEARANCE
  Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
• ASSEMBLANCE
  1. Resemblance; likeness; appearance. Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man Shak. 2. An assembling; assemblage. To weete the cause of their assemblance. Spenser.
• DISSEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; dissimilitude. Osborne.
• MISSEMBLANCE
  False resemblance or semblance.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.