👁️ Vision 👀 Able to see

seeing

1.0

The ability to use your eyes to notice things

noun
/ˈsiːɪŋ/

: visión

The artist's seeing of the city inspired her latest painting.

What keeps us from seeing that is fear, right?

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Examples

That it prevents me from seeing her as she truly is.
Her seeing the beautiful sunrise made her feel grateful for the day.
We'll look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
My strength is timing, not just seeing it right.
The child's seeing of the stars through the telescope filled her with wonder.

Synonyms

sight

vsseeing

538 1.0

The ability to see or an impressive thing you see

is focused on the act or ability, not on things perceived

vision

vsseeing

263 1.0

The ability to see

is about both the act and ability, not only the faculty

observation

vsseeing

211 3.0

The act of watching something to learn about it

is the general sensory act, not necessarily deliberate information gathering

view

vsseeing

86 1.2

An act of looking carefully at something

is more general, covering simple perception not only focused observation

eyesight

vsseeing

54 1.0

How well you can see with your eyes

includes the act as well as ability, not only clear eye function

sightedness

vsseeing

3 7.2

Ability to see clearly without problems

is the active act or general ability, not a medical state of normal eye function

visual sense

vsseeing

1 3.2

Being able to see with your eyes

includes the actual act of watching as well as pure sensory capacity

looking

vsseeing

1 1.0

The act of using your eyes to check something carefully

covers both passive ability and active acts, not only intentional examination

visual perception

vsseeing

4.1

The ability to see and understand what you look at

is the simpler act or ability, not specifically about interpretation

Antonyms

blindness

70 3.1

A condition in which a person cannot see because of injury, disease, or being born that way

invisibility

15 6.0

The state of not being seen by other people

Idioms

believing is seeing

9.2

Your beliefs make you see things as true even without proof

seeing is believing

5.3

People believe something only after they see it themselves

Compounds

Seeing Eye dog

6 4.1

A dog trained to guide a person who cannot see

How Clear

sharp-sightedness

6.6

clear-sighted

4.7

seeing

1.0

visual disorder

Specialized

5.0

blindness

70 3.1

Surface Forms

seeing singular

seeings plural

Morphology

seeing = see (transparent) = see + ing

The meaning is directly derived from the verb 'see' with the productive English suffix '-ing' forming a gerund/participle.

Etymology

The word seeing comes from the old English verb see, which meant 'to look' or 'to notice'. So seeing is simply the act of using your sight, using your eyes to notice things.