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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiːɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -iːɪŋ

Etymology 1

From see + -ing.

Verb

seeing

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

seeing (not comparable)

  1. Having vision; not blind.
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Noun

seeing (countable and uncountable, plural seeings)

  1. The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; 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 []
  2. (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Etymology 2

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

Conjunction

seeing

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

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English seeing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiːʔiŋ(ː)/, [ˈs̠iːʔiŋ(ː)]
  • Rhymes: -iːʔiŋ
  • Syllabification(key): see‧ing
  • Hyphenation(key): see‧ing

Noun

seeing

  1. (astronomy) seeing (the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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