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Seeing vs Gazing - What's the difference?

seeing | gazing |

As verbs the difference between seeing and gazing

is that seeing is while gazing is .

As nouns the difference between seeing and gazing

is that seeing is the action of the verb to see ; eyesight while gazing is the act by which somebody gazes.

As an adjective seeing

is having vision; not blind.

As a conjunction seeing

is (slang) 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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    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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