Viewing

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Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vieue, feminine past participle of veoir ‘see’, from Latin videre . The verb dates from the early 16th century.

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viewing (n.)

1540s, "inspection," verbal noun from view (v.). From 1944 as "last presentation of a dead body before the funeral" (earlier viewing (of) the remains, 1920); from 1959 as "the watching of television."