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Seeing vs Noticing - What's the difference?

seeing | noticing |

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)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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 dog

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having vision; not blind.
  • Synonyms
    * sighted

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to see ; eyesight.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
  • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings , hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
  • (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
  • Etymology 2

    Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
  • Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.

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    noticing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is noticed.
  • * 2005 , Susan Cerulean, Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites (page 132)
  • I believe these simple, crude noticings on my part must parallel the beginnings of systems of augury.