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Glancing vs Gazing - What's the difference?

glancing | gazing |

As verbs the difference between glancing and gazing

is that glancing is while gazing is .

As nouns the difference between glancing and gazing

is that glancing is a sideways look; a glance while gazing is the act by which somebody gazes.

As an adjective glancing

is making superficial, obtuse contact with something.

glancing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
    • His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sideways look; a glance.
  • * 1856 , David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?
    • No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.

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    gazing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody gazes.
  • * 1836 , Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country (page 6)
    • There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.

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