Gaze
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡeɪz/
- Rhymes: -eɪz
- Homophones: gays
Origin
Akin to Swedish dial. gasa and Gothic ðŒ¿ðƒðŒ²ðŒ°ðƒðŒ¾ðŒ°ðŒ½ (usgasjan, "to terrify").
Gaze in Webster's Dictionary
Full definition of gaze
Verb
- (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses (novel) Chapter 13Gerty 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.
- 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. 11Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
- (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
- 1667: Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd,
And gaz'd a while the ample Skie — John Milton, Paradise Lost (book VIII)
Troponyms
- (to stare intently) ogle
Derived terms
Noun
gaze
(plural gazes)- A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, 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.
- (archaic) The object gazed on.
- John Milton (1608-1674)made of my enemies the scorn and gaze
- 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 (page 35)She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.