Seeing vs Noticing - What's the difference?
seeing | noticing |
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Having vision; not blind.
The action of the verb to see ; eyesight.
* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
(astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
(slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
As verbs the difference between seeing and noticing
is that seeing is present participle of lang=en while noticing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between seeing and noticing
is that seeing is the action of the verb to see; eyesight while noticing is the act by which something is noticed.As an adjective seeing
is having vision; not blind.As a conjunction seeing
is inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.seeing
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
Derived terms
* all-seeing * seeing to * seeing-eye dogAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* sightedNoun
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings , hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
Etymology 2
Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.