different between outward vs seeming

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English outward, from Old English ?tweard, equivalent to out +? -ward

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: out'w?rd, IPA^(key): /?a?t.w?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: out'w?d, IPA^(key): /?a?t.w?d/
• Hyphenation: out?ward

Adjective

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. outer; located towards the outside
2. visible, noticeable

   By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.

3. Tending to the exterior or outside.

   • The fire will force its outward way.

4. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.

   an outward war

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hayward to this entry?)

Translations

Adverb

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. Towards the outside; away from the centre. [from 10^thc.]

   We are outward bound.
2. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. [14^th-17^thc.]

Synonyms

• outwards

Derived terms

• outwardness

Translations

Etymology 2

From out- +? ward.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /a?t?w??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /a?t?w??d/

Verb

outward (third-person singular simple present outwards, present participle outwarding, simple past and past participle outwarded)

1. (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:

     Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

Etymology 3

Noun

outward (plural outwards)

1. A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.

Anagrams

• draw out, outdraw

Middle English

Alternative forms

• owtward, outwarde, owtwarde, ow?twarde, outeward, utward, utteward

Etymology

From Old English ?tweard; equivalent to out +? -ward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?tward/, /?u?twa?rd/

Adverb

outward

1. outside (in the exterior)
2. To an external location; outwards
3. At the exterior; at a location away from one's home or homeland
4. From an external perspective; seemingly.
5. secularly; in a practical manner.

Derived terms

• outwardes

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “?utw??rd(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Adjective

outward

1. outside, outer, on the surface
2. outward, toward the exterior
3. Oriented towards the outside.
4. Due to outside factors.
5. In somewhere outside a given place or thing (especially of a country).
6. Non-religious; lay

Derived terms

• outwardly

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “?utw??rd(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Noun

outward

1. The outside; the exterior

See also

• homward
• inward

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?m??/
• Homophones: seaming, seming
• Rhymes: -i?m??

Verb

seeming

1. present participle of seem

Adjective

seeming (comparative more seeming, superlative most seeming)

1. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, and often opposed to, real or actual).

   Synonyms: apparent, ostensible

   • 1671, Aphra Behn, The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband, London: Thomas Dring, Act II, Scene 5, pp. 32-33,^[1]

     I'le hide my anger in a seeming calm,
     And what I have to do, consult the while,
     And mask my vengeance underneath a smile.

   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays, London: W. Griffin, Essay 18, p. 150,^[2]

     Of all the English philosophers, I most reverence Bacon, that great and hardy genius: he it is who, undaunted by the seeming difficulties that oppose, prompts human curiosity to examine every part of nature;

   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Chapter 27,^[3]

     […] she was overcome like the thirsty one who is drawn toward the seeming water in the desert […]

   • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, Chapter 10,^[4]

     […] though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts of all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them.

Derived terms

• seemingly
• seemingness

Translations

Noun

seeming (countable and uncountable, plural seemings)

1. Outward appearance.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 162,^[7]

     I am not what I seemed to her, he thought, and doubtless she is not what she seemed to me, but it is our lot to be irrevocably condemned to seemings and to deserve them too.

2. (obsolete) Apprehension; judgement.
   • 1604, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London, Preface, p. 39,^[8]

     Nothing more cleare vnto their seeming, then that a new Jerusalem being often spoken of in Scripture, they vndoubtedly were themselues that newe Ierusalem,

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 736-738,^[9]

     […] in her ears the sound
     Yet rung of his perswasive words, impregn’d
     With Reason, to her seeming, and with Truth;

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