What is another word for Gazing?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈe͡ɪzɪŋ] (IPA)

Gazing refers to the act of looking intensely or fixedly at something or someone. There are many synonyms available for this word, including staring, peering, gawking, ogling, observing, scrutinizing, examining, watching, and admiring, among others. Each of these words carries a slightly different connotation or implication depending on the context in which they are used. Staring, for example, tends to suggest a more intense or prolonged gaze, while peering tends to suggest an attempt to see more clearly. Gawking and ogling often connote a sense of impolite or lustful staring, while observing, scrutinizing, and examining suggest a more deliberate and analytical approach to looking. Ultimately, the choice of synonym will depend on the specific meaning or nuance one wishes to convey.

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What are the hypernyms for Gazing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Gazing

We sat in silence Gazing into the peat fire.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
Always-always-night and day-my own conscience has been watching and accusing me, an eye of dread steadily Gazing down into my soul and seeing my sin deep, deep in my heart.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
And in this way she begged him, in this way she repeated, Gazing into his eyes, What, Stas?
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Famous quotes with Gazing

  • For Chesterton… British public rhetoric was more than a mere style: "The motive is the desire to disguise a thing even when expressing it."At least they said openly what was being done openly. The British rhetoric, for Chesterton, was one with the decayed British liberalism that allowed exploitation of workers by plutocrats who were never rebuked by government or the courts.Gazing back across the horrors of World War II, it is hard for us to imagine how good men like Chesterton, whatever their objections to British liberalism, could admire Mussolini, though several prominent intellectuals and politicians did.Mussolini's thuggish violence, of course, Chesterton and others rejected. But their admiration was an index of the scale of reform they thought needed.
    G. K. Chesterton
  • True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human phantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?
    Pat Murphy
  • If I had my time again, I think maybe I'd try to be a cook. I love food and am endlessly interested in recipes, weirdly enough. But now, the occupation of "cat" would probably be nearer the mark. Sleeping. Gazing into the middle distance. Occasionally making rapid movements for no real reason. I could do that.
    Michael Marshall Smith

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