- the act or practice of assuming a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: The new website aims to strip away the pretentious posing of wine connoisseurs, inviting users to “tell us what tastes good to you!”
- the act or practice of falsely representing oneself: Under all his posing as an honest reporter, his real purpose is to defend a barbarous regime.
- the act of assuming or holding a particular physical position, or of placing someone else in such a position, as for a portrait or photograph: She liked to paint women and children, and the natural posing of her subjects is still unsurpassed.
- the act of putting forward, stating, or suggesting something, as a question, hypothesis, matter for consideration, etc.: Classroom strategies like cooperative learning and the posing of open-ended questions can encourage thinking and discussion.
- falsely representing oneself, or assuming a particular attitude or stance in the hope of impressing others: I don’t fit in—everyone else in that place is a filmmaker, an "edgy" magazine journalist, or a posing hipster.
- assuming a particular physical position, as for a portrait or photograph: I love how real and natural these images are—no posing tourists, just scenic beauty on its own.
- baffling, perplexing, or vexing; difficult: The command to “love your neighbor as you love yourself” has within it the most posing challenge for you and me—learning to love ourselves.