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seeing en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From see + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having vision; not blind.

Deriveds

seeingness · unseeing · everseeing · nonseeing · seeingly

Synonyms

sighted

Translations (17)

gl vidente (having vision; not blind) · da seende (having vision; not blind) · bg зрящ (having vision; not blind) · la videns (having vision; not blind) · ar مُبْصِر (having vision; not blind) · es vidente (having vision; not blind) · lv redzīgs (having vision; not blind) · fr voyant (having vision; not blind) · cs vidomý (having vision; not blind) · ar بَصِير (having vision; not blind) · de sehend (having vision; not blind) · fi näkevä (having vision; not blind) · ru ви́дящий (having vision; not blind) · ru зря́чий (having vision; not blind) · cs vidoucí (having vision; not blind) · cmn 明眼 (having vision; not blind) · lv redzošs (having vision; not blind)

seeing en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From see + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; eyesight.
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […] 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
seeings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

sightseeing · seeing is believing · believing is seeing · hard of seeing

Translations (11)

ru ви́дение (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · ga feiceáil (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · bg зрение (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · fi seeing (the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere) · ar رُؤْيَة (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · es videncia (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · dsb wiźenje (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · te చూచుట (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · de Sehen (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · ru зре́ние (the action of the verb to see; eyesight) · fi näkeminen (the action of the verb to see; eyesight)

seeing en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From see + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of see
    form of see
    • 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. 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

Deriveds

seeing-eye dog · all-seeing · far-seeing · farseeing · seeing to

seeing en · CCONJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

Meanings

  1. (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
    • Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.