SEEING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seeing mean? 

• SEEING (noun)
  The noun SEEING has 2 senses:

1. perception by means of the eyes

2. normal use of the faculty of vision

  Familiarity information: SEEING used as a noun is rare.

• SEEING (adjective)
  The adjective SEEING has 1 sense:

1. having vision, not blind

  Familiarity information: SEEING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEEING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perception by means of the eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

beholding; seeing; visual perception

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Normal use of the faculty of vision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

eyesight; seeing; sightedness

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)

• SEEING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having vision, not blind

Similar:

sighted (able to see)

Derivation:

seeing (normal use of the faculty of vision)

 Context examples 

Mercury and Venus transits are visible more often from Mars than from Earth, and Mars also offers a vantage point for seeing Earth transits.

(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)

You are very kind, you are all kindness, my dear madam, cried Mrs. Norris; but as to Fanny, she will have opportunities in plenty of seeing Sotherton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For the first time, we are seeing filaments of gas directly spiral into a galaxy.

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)

I think that we should begin by seeing Forbes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Theoretically, seeing an increase in the numbers of switching cells in otherwise healthy vessels should raise an alarm.

(Observation of blood vessel cells changing function could lead to early detection of blocked arteries, University of Cambridge)

My daughter and I are both highly sensible of your goodness, and have the greatest satisfaction in seeing you at Hartfield.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I could not help laughing; but it was much more in the pleasure of seeing them, than at the appearance they made.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is not easy to express the joy I was in, upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I left in it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Perhaps her mother was right, and she was seeing too much of him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)