aspection

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin aspectiōnem, from aspicere (“to look at”), whence aspect. First attested in 1646. === Pronunciation === enPR: ă-spĕk′shən (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /æˈspɛk.ʃən/; (also Received Pronunciation) /a-/, /-ˈspek-/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /æˈspek.ʃən/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɛˈspek.ʃən/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /aˈspɛk.ʃən/, /aˈspɛk.ʃʌn/ (India) IPA(key): /a(ː)ˈspɛ(ː)k.ʃon/ Rhymes: -ɛkʃən Hyphenation: as‧pec‧​tion === Noun === aspection (countable and uncountable, plural aspections) (obsolete) The act of viewing; a look. [1646–1652] to take aspection of something === Further reading === “aspection”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, sourced from Noah Porter, editor, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Dictionary, London: George Bell & Sons and Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 11 April 2026: “The act of viewing; a look.” “aspection, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000: “The action of looking at, beholding, viewing, watching.” “aspection, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present: “archaic : viewing” William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “aspection, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 339, column 3: “The act of viewing or looking upon; view.”. “Aspection, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 24 November 2011: “The act of viewing; a look.” William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “aspection, n.”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 339, column 3: “The act of viewing or looking upon; view.” Noah Webster (1828), “Aspection”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC, column 2: “The act of viewing.” === Anagrams === stenopaic