N2 — outside your level filter
であるかのようだ
as if; just as though — a likeness the speaker knows is not the fact
彼は何も聞いていなかったかのように、平気な顔で話し続けた。
kare wa nani mo kiite inakatta ka no you ni, heiki na kao de hanashitsuzuketa.
He carried on talking with a straight face, as if he had heard nothing. neutral
五月なのに、まるで真夏が来たかのようだ。
gogatsu na noni, marude manatsu ga kita ka no you da.
It's May, and yet it's as if midsummer had arrived. neutral