Seemer

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Someone who gives an outward appearance of a quality or character that they may not actually possess
2. A person whose manner suggests a certain nature or status while their real character remains hidden
3. One who puts on a show of being a particular kind of person, often as a pretense rather than in truth

Etymology: "Seemer" is a plain formation: the verb "seem" with the agent suffix "-er," which turns a verb into a noun for someone or something that performs the action. A seemer, then, is one who seems, in the sense of putting on an outward appearance. The word is built entirely from English parts, so there is no foreign root to trace, and its meaning follows directly from the verb it grows out of.