Meaning of Gaze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
2. The object gazed on.
   archaic
3. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.

Equivalents

Examples

“Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.”

“Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.”

“Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;”

“She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.”

CEFR level