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Observation vs Seeing - What's the difference?

observation | seeing | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between observation and seeing

is that observation is the act of observing, and the fact of being observed while seeing is the action of the verb to see; eyesight.

As a verb seeing is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective seeing is

having vision; not blind.

As a conjunction seeing is

inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

observation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of observing, and the fact of being observed.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= A Palette of Particles , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
  • The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.
  • A remark or comment.
  • * Shakespeare
    • That's a foolish observation .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.
  • A judgement based on observing.
  • Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.

    Derived terms

    * observation car

    Related terms

    * observance * observant * observatory * observe * observer

    See also

    * (wikipedia "observation")

    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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    * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule