OBSERVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does observing mean? 

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

1. quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSERVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception

Synonyms:

observant; observing

Similar:

perceptive (having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment)

 Context examples 

To highlight changes in the auroras Hubble is observing Jupiter almost daily for several months.

(Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere, NASA)

When Spitzer started observing the star again five months later, the team was shocked by the data they received.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)

The scientists were able to isolate the hybrid hepatocytes after observing how the tissue regenerated.

(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)

Lady Bertram soon brought the matter to a certainty by carelessly observing to Mrs. Norris—I think, sister, we need not keep Miss Lee any longer, when Fanny goes to live with you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You are very quick at observing.

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

During this interval, I glanced at Ham again, and observing the same expression on his face, and his eyes still directed to the distant light, I touched his arm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Observing snakes hunting is difficult, with only a few of the 3,650 snake species having been seen hunting in the wild.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

His appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him without observing him.

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

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I happened to wear my gloves, which the master gray observing, seemed perplexed, discovering signs of wonder what I had done to my fore-feet.

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