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In some senses, gaze is marked as archaic, poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
gaze
UK /ɡeɪz/ US /ˈɡæɪz/
noun 3verb 2
Definitions
verb
1
To stare intently or earnestly.
They gazed at the stars for hours.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
2
To stare at.
Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
I searched for form and land For years and years I roamed I gazed a gazeless stare.
noun
1
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.
2
The object gazed on.
Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;
3
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.
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