glanceful

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glanceful (plural glancefuls)

That which is perceived at a glance.
- 1994, Jennifer Bosveld, Jazz Kills the Paperboy, →ISBN, page 13:
  ...every glanceful dumps onto a metaphysical floppy disc, compartmentalized notions: couples standing in line at the gallery, singles hitting happy hour, families boating on Lake Erie, dogs slobbering on the steps of Magnolia Thunderpussy's Record Shop all have their place and Jazzy understands why.
- 2019, Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior, →ISBN:
  One album opened on her lap to show a glanceful of red snowsuits, Christmas trees, armloads of grinning dolls, and beautiful tall children who smiled, drew pictures and were happy.
That which is communicated by a glance.
- 1997, Péter Esterházy, A Little Hungarian Pornography, →ISBN, page 12:
  During the day she'd lounge on the shore of the thermal lake in a fire-engine-red bikini, casting meaningful glances (with every glanceful worth its weight in gold) at the trade union miners, who were staying there gratis in the hopes of gaining relief in the medicinal waters for whatever ailed them.
- 2000, Anthony John Harper, Margaret C Ives, Sappho in the Shadows, →ISBN:
  Frau Ellen was bright as the poppy in flower Yet no fragrance came forth from its bloom, Her smiling lip curled with mockery sour, Her eye cast a glanceful of doom.

glanceful (comparative more glanceful, superlative most glanceful)

Characterized by glances.
- 1827, Edward Bevan, The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management, page 313:
  Transcends in organs apt this puny fly, Her fine-strung feelers, and her glanceful eye, Set with ten thousand lenses."
- 2002, Calvin O. Schrag, Martin Joseph Matuštík, William Leon McBride, Calvin O. Schrag and the task of philosophy after postmodernity:
  To expressivity and simplicity of surface we must add one final factor that figures into the glanceful perception of environmental difficulties and the imperative to rectify them: the intensity of the conflict that engendered these difficulties.