sidegaze

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See also: side-gaze and side gaze

English

Etymology

From side +‎ gaze.

Pronunciation

Noun

sidegaze (plural sidegazes)

  1. (medicine) The act of looking sideways, to the left or right, by moving only one's eyes.
    • 1930, Ray Cummings, “Section 4, Ch. 28, "The Ascent of Archimedes"”, in "Brigands of the Moon: Part Three of a Four-part Novel" in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May and June 1930:
      "His light wentout very promptly, didn't it?" She flashed me a sidegaze. Were we acting convincingly?
    • 1984, Joseph Lang, Strabismus, →ISBN, page 127:
      Gaze is almost never straight ahead but varies between downgaze, sidegaze, and upgaze. Correct fixation of an object does not take place.

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