Synonyms for gaze
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 11 votes

1. gaze

   To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

   Synonyms:
   behold, contemplate, descry, discern, glance, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, stare, survey, view, watch

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.4 / 7 votes

1. gaze

   Synonyms:
   stare, contemplate, scan, behold, regard, view, glower, gloat

   Antonyms:
   wink, ignore, overlook, ogler disregard, glance

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. gaze, regardverb

   a long fixed look

   "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

   Synonyms:
   paying attention, wish, esteem, respect, regard, attentiveness, heed, compliments

2. gaze, stareverb

   look at with fixed eyes

   "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"

   Synonyms:
   stare

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. gazeverb

   Synonyms:
   stare, gloat, look intently

2. gazenoun

   Synonyms:
   stare, intent look, fixed look

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "gaze":

   look

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1. George Linley:

   Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

2. Eugène Ionesco:

   The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

3. Lucretius:

   Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

4. Alphonse de Lamartine:

   If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

5. Illusions Index:

   In 1804, Troxler made the discovery that rigidly fixating one’s gaze on some element in the visual field can cause surrounding stationary images to seem to slowly disappear or fade, they are replaced with an experience, the nature of which is determined by the background that the object is on.