How many syllables in eying?

There are 2 syllables in the word eying.

How to pronounce eying:

eying (noun):: the ability to see or record what is happening; a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight; the nearly spherical usually paired hollow organ of sight in vertebrates that is filled with a jellylike material, is lined with a photosensitive retina, and is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull

following

gazing

guarding

looking

observing

seeing

staring

watching

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