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Viewing vs Exhibition - What's the difference?

viewing | exhibition |

As nouns the difference between viewing and exhibition

is that viewing is an instance of viewing something while exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.

As a verb viewing

is present participle of lang=en.

viewing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of viewing something.
  • The agent took them to the property for a viewing .
    I hated the film at first, but with subsequent viewings it has grown on me.
  • (senseid) A wake.
  • exhibition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
  • A large scale public showing of objects or products.
  • There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
    a boat exhibition
  • (UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
  • He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

    Derived terms

    * exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneself