Synonyms for seeing
- noun
- adjective
Most common
sight eye sight sightedness beholding
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Sight
2. Vision
Other
beholding
Adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; eyesight.
- n. 2
The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
- adj. 1
Having vision; not blind.
Related words
- Phrases
- seeing that be seeing you seeing stone
Forms
- Plural
- seeings → sights, visions, perceptions, discernments…
Choose the right word
We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- sight The girl began to cry at the sight of the big dog.
- sightedness Rodrigo had difficulty finding the screw because of his near-sightedness.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| seeing | rising | |
| sight | rising | |
| sightedness | steady | |
| beholding | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- sight1
- 6 letters
- vision2
- 7 letters
- sighted2
- 9 letters
- beholding3
- 10 letters
- perception3
- 11 letters
- discernment3, sightedness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vision2 = 2 syllables).