gaze
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gaze
- /ɡeɪz/
- /ˈɡæɪz/ Australia
Sounds like gays (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).
verb gazes · gazing · gazed
- To stare intently or earnestly. They gazed at the stars for hours.
- To stare at. Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
noun gazes
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A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
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.
Similar: regard
- The object gazed on. Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
- In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
- The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience. hooks is right to argue that within this culture the ethnographic conceit of a neutral gaze will always be a white gaze, an unmarked white gaze, one which passes its own perspective off as the omniscient
- A group of raccoons. my small gaze of raccoons lived in a large maple tree that we shared with four elderly chipmunks and seven squirrels from three different generations of the same family
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: stare, regard, glance, glimpse, peer, admire, sight, sights, view, looking, standpoint, set, regards, scrutinize, respect, gauze
Translations
Every language
verb to stare intently or earnestly
| Español | observar |
|---|---|
| Português | contemplar |
| Français | fixer |
| Deutsch | starren |
| Italiano | fissare |
| Română | privi, holba |
| Русский | разгля́дывать razgljádyvatʹ |
| עברית | שָׁזַף עַיִן shazáf 'ayín, הִבִּיט hibbít |
verb to stare at
| Español | mirar fijamente |
|---|---|
| Português | contemplar |
| Deutsch | anstarren |
| Italiano | guardare, puntare gli occhi, volgere lo sguardo |
| Русский | вглядываться в vgljadyvatʹsja v |
| العربية | رَنَا ranā |
Talk about this word "gaze." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gaze. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gaze. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gaze "gaze." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gaze.Cite this
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title = {gaze},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gaze},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
