gaze
/ˈɡæɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.70 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
Example Sentences
- "They gazed at the stars for hours."
- "Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?"
- "Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see."
- "She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden."
- "In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities[.]"
- "Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: gasen
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡæɪz/