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Glaring vs Gazing - What's the difference?

glaring | gazing |

As verbs the difference between glaring and gazing

is that glaring is while gazing is .

As nouns the difference between glaring and gazing

is that glaring is the act of giving a glare while gazing is the act by which somebody gazes.

As an adjective glaring

is reflecting with glare.

glaring

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Reflecting with glare.
  • Blatant, obvious.
    • How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

    Derived terms

    * glaringly * glaringness

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a glare.
  • * (Herman Melville), Moby-Dick
    • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
  • (rare) A group of cats.
  • * 2010 , The Big Bang Theory , episode “ The Zazzy Substitution”
    • Leonard : You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
    Sheldon : Clowder.
    Leonard : What?
    Sheldon : A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring . It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.

    Synonyms

    * (group of cats) clowder

    Hyponyms

    * (group of cats) kindle (group of kittens) English collective nouns

    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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