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.

Seeing vs Glancing - What's the difference?

seeing | glancing |

As verbs the difference between seeing and glancing

is that seeing is while glancing is .

As adjectives the difference between seeing and glancing

is that seeing is having vision; not blind while glancing is making superficial, obtuse contact with something.

As nouns the difference between seeing and glancing

is that seeing is the action of the verb to see ; eyesight while glancing is a sideways look; a glance.

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.

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

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

    glancing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
    • His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sideways look; a glance.
  • * 1856 , David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?
    • No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.

    Anagrams

    *