Gaze vs Vision - What's the difference?

gaze | vision |

As nouns the difference between gaze and vision

is that gaze is gauze while vision is ghost.

gaze

English

Verb

(gaz)

To stare intently or earnestly.

* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13

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.

In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)

* Bible, Acts i. 11

Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

(poetic) To stare at.

* 1667': Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And '''gaz'd a while the ample Skie — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost (book VIII)

Synonyms

* gape, stare, look

Troponyms

* (to stare intently) ogle

Derived terms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

*: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.

(lb) The object gazed on.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:made of my enemies the scorn and gaze

In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.

*2003 , Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader , p.35:

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

Derived terms

* (l)

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vision

English

(wikipedia vision)

Noun

(label) The sense or ability of sight.

Something seen; an object perceived visually.

* 1610 , , I. ii. 270:

For to a vision so apparent rumour / Cannot be mute

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=7, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}

(label) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

(label) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

(John Locke)

(label) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

(label) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.

(label) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

Synonyms

* (ability) sight, eyesight, view, perception * (something imaginary) apparition, hallucination, mirage * (ideal or goal) dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy

Derived terms

* binocular vision * double vision * personal vision * prevision * visible * visibility * vision statement * visionary * visioner * visual

Verb

(en verb)

To imagine something as if it were to be true.

To provide with a vision.

Synonyms

* (imagine) envision

Derived terms

* envision * prevision

Anagrams

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