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Gazing vs Observing - What's the difference?

gazing | observing |

As verbs the difference between gazing and observing

is that gazing is while observing is .

As nouns the difference between gazing and observing

is that gazing is the act by which somebody gazes while observing is observation.

gazing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody gazes.
  • * 1836 , Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country (page 6)
    • There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.

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    observing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • observation
  • * 2009 , Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition (page 194)
    • Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.