gaze
English
Etymology
Akin to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgasjan, “to terrify”). [1]
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- 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.
- They gazed at the stars for hours.
- In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)
- Bible, Acts i. 11
- Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (book VIII)
- Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (book VIII)
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.
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- 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.
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- (archaic) The object gazed on.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- made of my enemies the scorn and gaze
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- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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, p.35:
- She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
- 2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, p.35:
Derived terms
Translations
A fixed look
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The object gazed on
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References
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”) (pronounced in the dialects with /ɡ/), less likely from غَزَّة (ḡazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.
Noun
gaze f (plural gazes)
Etymology 2
Verb
gaze
- first-person singular present indicative of gazer
- third-person singular present indicative of gazer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of gazer
- second-person singular imperative of gazer
Further reading
- “gaze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Noun
gaze f (plural gazes)
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