Viewing vs Seeing - What's the difference?
viewing | seeing |
An instance of viewing something.
(senseid) A wake.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Having vision; not blind.
The action of the verb to see ; eyesight.
* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
(astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
(slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
As verbs the difference between viewing and seeing
is that viewing is present participle of lang=en while seeing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between viewing and seeing
is that viewing is an instance of viewing something while seeing is the action of the verb to see; eyesight.As an adjective seeing is
having vision; not blind.As a conjunction seeing is
inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.viewing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
seeing
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)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 dogAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* sightedNoun
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings , hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
Etymology 2
Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.