Associations to the word «Gaze»

Wiktionary

GAZE, verb. (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
GAZE, verb. (transitive) (poetic) To stare at.
GAZE, noun. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
GAZE, noun. (archaic) The object gazed on.
GAZE, noun. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.

Dictionary definition

GAZE, noun. A long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me".
GAZE, verb. Look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats