Gazee vs Gazed - What's the difference?
gazee | gazed |
One who is gazed at or observed.
* 2006 , Robert Casillo, Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese (page 489)
* 2010 , Philip Feifan Xie, Authenticating Ethnic Tourism
(gaze)
To stare intently or earnestly.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
* Bible, Acts i. 11
(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)
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
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*: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.
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As verbs the difference between gazee and gazed
is that gazee is while gazed is (gaze).gazee
English
Noun
(en noun)- In this world of competition over scarce wealth and even scarcer social prestige, Michael has become the envious gazer, coveting the money (and prestige) Johnny Boy withholds from him, while Johnny Boy is the gazee .
- The significance of the gazer-gazee construct has had a profound impact on research in many fields. Almost all institutional settings can
gazed
English
Verb
(head)gaze
English
Verb
(gaz)- 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
)
- Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?