What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Watching vs Noticing - What's the difference?

watching | noticing |

As verbs the difference between watching and noticing

is that watching is while noticing is .

As nouns the difference between watching and noticing

is that watching is the act of one who watches while noticing is the act by which something is noticed.

watching

English

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.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
    • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching

    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.