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onlooking

[ on-look-ing, awn- ]
/ ˈɒnˌlʊk ɪŋ, ˈɔn- /
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adjective
looking on; observing; perceiving.
looking onward or foreboding.
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Origin of onlooking

1655–65; on + looking, after verb phrase look on
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