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Watching vs Viewing - What's the difference?

watching | viewing | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between watching and viewing

is that watching is present participle of lang=en while viewing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between watching and viewing

is that watching is the act of one who watches while viewing is an instance of viewing something.

watching

English

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.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
    • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching

    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.