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Witnessing vs Seeing - What's the difference?

witnessing | seeing |

As verbs the difference between witnessing and seeing

is that witnessing is present participle of lang=en while seeing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between witnessing and seeing

is that witnessing is the act of bearing witness 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.

witnessing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of bearing witness.
    • false witnessings

    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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