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SEEING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Normal use of the faculty of vision
Synonyms:
eyesight; seeing; sightedness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("seeing" is a kind of...):
sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense (the ability to see; the visual faculty)
Derivation:
see (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight)
see (see and understand, have a good eye)
seeing (having vision, not blind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Perception by means of the eyes
Synonyms:
beholding; seeing; visual perception
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("seeing" is a kind of...):
perception (the process of perceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seeing"):
contrast (the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors)
face recognition (the visual perception of familiar faces)
object recognition (the visual perception of familiar objects)
visual space (the visual perception of space)
fusion; optical fusion (the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept)
Derivation:
see (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having vision, not blind
Classified under:
Similar:
sighted (able to see)
Derivation:
seeing (normal use of the faculty of vision)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb see
Context examples:
I don't mean the normal happiness that comes from seeing friends, receiving presents, or spending time with family members.
(NPI - Seem Too Cheerful or Too Happy for No Reason, NCI Thesaurus)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient describe seeing things not seen by others or behave as if he/she is seeing things not seen by others (people, animals, lights, etc.)?
(NPI - Describe Seeing Things Not Seen by Others, NCI Thesaurus)
I looked around for his birds, and not seeing them, asked him where they were.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
This is what scientists think they are seeing around WDJ0914+1914: the first evaporating planet orbiting a white dwarf.
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
The little girl, seeing she had lost one of her pretty shoes, grew angry, and said to the Witch, "Give me back my shoe!"
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He wished to avoid seeing her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It might be that your partner is no longer going through a hard patch or is at least seeing better times.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Unfortunately, John didn't come, not seeing the matter in that light.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Seeing a respectably-dressed person, a lady as she supposed, she came forward with civility.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
