different between seeing vs cognisance

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si???/
• Rhymes: -i???

Etymology 1

see +? -ing

Verb

seeing

1. present participle of see

Derived terms

• all-seeing
• seeing to
• seeing-eye dog

Adjective

seeing (not comparable)

1. Having vision; not blind.

Synonyms

• sighted

Translations

Noun

seeing (countable and uncountable, plural seeings)

1. The action of the verb to see; 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.

Translations

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Giesen, genies, signee

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English seeing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si??i?(?)/, [?s?i??i?(?)]
• Syllabification: 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

English

Noun

cognisance (countable and uncountable, plural cognisances)

1. Alternative spelling of cognizance
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 28

     She has no real cognisance, dear lambkin, of anything at all.