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. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him

2. Montana Miller:

   It seems fairly obvious that the style of self-presentation is directly imitating that of celebrities such as the Kardashians—flaunting bodies and expressions in the most sexually provocative way possible, it is extremely troubling that these girls find it more important to attract attention in this way, entirely fashioned for the pleasure of the male gaze, rather than expressing their true personalities, passions or achievements.

3. William Butler Yeats:

   You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

4. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs:

   How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony.

5. Herman Melville:

   Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.