Usually means: Assuming a position for effect.
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  1. posing: Merriam-Webster
  2. posing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. posing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Posing, posing: Wordnik
  5. posing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. posing: Wiktionary
  7. Posing, posing: Dictionary.com
  8. posing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Posing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. posing: Rhymezone
  11. Posing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. posing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. posing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. posing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. posing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. posing: Legal dictionary

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  1. posing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (posing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is posed.
▸ noun:  The act of one who poses or postures.
▸ noun:  (informal) The act of portraying oneself artificially, usually to make oneself appear grander or to fit in with the crowd; pretense

Similar:
sitting, poising, positing, position, postulating, positor, presupposition, projecting, proffering, projection, more...

Opposite:
relaxing, resting, unwinding, lounging

Phrases:
posing pouch, posing as, posing pouches, Power posing, posing as rich or intelligent, more...

Adjectives:
problem, very, mere, worth, such, conscious, much, constant, careful, theatrical, pre

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Similar:
sitting, poising, positing, position, postulating, positor, presupposition, projecting, proffering, projection, more...

Opposite:
relaxing, resting, unwinding, lounging

Phrases:
posing pouch, posing as, posing pouches, Power posing, posing as rich or intelligent, posing like a statue, posing a threat, word for posing like a statue, posing a question, more...

Adjectives:
problem, very, mere, worth, such, conscious, much, constant, careful, theatrical, pre

Colors:
    beige,     black,     blue,     blush,     bronze, more...



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