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onlooking

a. That is looking on; watching, observing.

Usage examples of "onlooking".

Obviously, for a science based on mere onlooking there is no objection to breaking up an established system into ever more subdivisions in order to keep it in line with an increasingly detailed outer observation.

He drank half of it and then stopped to converse with the onlooking merchant.

They did it good and proper, with zest and effectiveness that no onlooking Rigellian could possibly mistake for a piece of dramatic play-acting.

Pointing to the rank of onlooking noblemen, he declared, 'Orin Broad-Foot is that man.

Four men were good-naturedly attempting to raise a massive fish onto the spit braces, urging each other to greater effort while the onlooking women taunted them for weakness.