gaze
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Etymology
From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”). [1]
Pronunciation
Verb
gaze (third-person singular simple present gazes, present participle gazing, simple past and past participle gazed)
- (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
- They gazed at the stars for hours.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:11:
- Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 64:
- She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden.
- 1998, Michelangelo Antonioni, Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenerios, and Ideas, page xv:
- In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities[.]
- (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
- 1970, David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World:
- I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare.
Synonyms
Troponyms
- (to stare intently): ogle
Derived terms
Translations
to stare intently or earnestly
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to stare at
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Noun
gaze (plural gazes)
- A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- (archaic) The object gazed on.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 11:
- Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;
- (psychoanalysis) In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
- 2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, page 35:
- She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
Derived terms
Translations
fixed look
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object gazed on
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