Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To look steadily, intently, and with fixed attention.
- noun A steady, fixed look.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To look steadily or intently; look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or anxiety.
- Synonyms Gape, etc. See
stare . - To look at intently or with fixed attention.
- noun A fixed or intent look, as of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
- noun The object gazed on; a gazing-stock.
- noun In heraldry, standing and turning the head so as to look out from the shield: said only of the hart: equivalent to statant affrontė, which is applied to other beasts used as charges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To view with attention; to gaze on .
- noun A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
- noun The object gazed on.
- noun (Her.) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.
- intransitive verb To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
stare intently orearnestly . - verb transitive (poetic) To
stare at. - noun A
fixed look ; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. - noun archaic The object gazed on.
- noun In
Lacanian psychoanalysis , therelationship of thesubject with thedesire tolook andawareness that one can be viewed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long fixed look
- verb look at with fixed eyes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"We have Obama particularly looking down a lot ... and now looking down - what I call gaze aversion - is a new measure that has to go along with blink frequency," he said.
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Her gaze is so incredibly direct, so unyielding, that he just has to look away.
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It deflects our gaze from the real threats of economic meltdown, political complicity, and environmental apocalypse.
Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Randall Amster 2010
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Their gaze is direct into the lens, with what might be described as a "straight face" common to the long exposure requirements of that era's photography.
John 2010
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It deflects our gaze from the real threats of economic meltdown, political complicity, and environmental apocalypse.
Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Randall Amster 2010
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His wife lifted her gaze from the pots and pans, and followed his in a keen scrutiny of the river.
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I asked, transferring my gaze from the somber shutters ... to the window with the bright stickers and colorful mamie leaning out.
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Paladin stood up, nodded his head, and consciously averting his gaze from the poor souls on the wall, walked towards the bedroom area.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Jmilb’s Review Forum 2009
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I asked, transferring my gaze from the somber shutters ... to the window with the bright stickers and colorful mamie leaning out.
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Rosemary walked into the diner in a single, long, lithe movement that drew my gaze from the list of eggs done every which way.
Archive 2009-07-01 Ulysses 2009
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Just FYI it stops. When you are over 40. It's like turning off a button. I used to feel this male gaze and feel like you, overwhelmed by it, but of course got used to it. Like every women does, and in fact turned it to my benefit at some point. Now nearing middle age, I have also felt a bit confused on how it just stops once you reach a certain age.
The Male Gaze - I'm so Tired whenth3bowbreaks 2025
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The term was popularized, fifty years ago, by the British film theorist Laura Mulvey, who wrote, in a 1973 essay called “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” of how the “male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.”
The Invention of “the Male Gaze” Lauren Michele Jackson 2023
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On one level, Vertigo is a clever story about the factuality of the unrelenting male gaze that dominates and dictates both our shared collective reality and the majority of the narratives we as a species create and willingly consume, but it should also be viewed as a clever deconstruction of it.
Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: The Unrelenting Male Gaze that Blurs the Lines Between Possession and Obsession • Cinephilia & Beyond cinephiliabeyond 2024
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Birds’ Eye View has been working with the doyenne of feminist cinema, Prof Laura Mulvey of Birkbeck University, famed for creating the term “the male gaze”.
'It's a mistresspiece!': the 14-hour film about forgotten female directors Kate Muir 2020
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