seeming vs semblance

seeming

noun
  • Outward appearance. 

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

semblance

noun
  • the way something looks; appearance; form 

  • likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar. 

How often have the words seeming and semblance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )