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viewing (n.)
[viewing 词源字典]
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."
[viewing etymology, viewing origin, 英语词源]