gaze

1. 1

   To stare intently or earnestly.intransitive

   • They gazed at the stars for hours.
2. 2

   To stare at.poetictransitive

   • 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.

syn. gape · stare · muse

1. 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. 2

   The object gazed on.archaic

   • 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. 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.
4. 4

   The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience.in-compoundsusually

   • 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
   • The American panorama is indicative of the nation's expansion westward and an example of the American gaze.
5. 5

   A group of raccoons.collective

   • 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
   • Even as the world limps back to normal, some weird wildlife stuff is going on–like a gaze of aggressive raccoons taking over Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.