stargazing
n.
act of observing the stars; daydreaming
stargaze
v.
look at the stars; daydream
Stargazing
stargazing
Noun
1. observation of the stars
(hypernym) observation, observance, watching
(derivation) stargaze
stargaze
Verb
1. observe the stars
(hypernym) gaze, stare
(derivation) astronomer, uranologist, stargazer
(classification) astronomy, uranology
2. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
(synonym) dream, daydream, woolgather
(hypernym) imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
(derivation) lotus-eater, stargazer
stargazing
Synonyms and related words:
Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, aspect, astrodiagnosis, astrogeology, astrognosy, astrography, astrolithology, astrology, astromancy, astronomy, astrophotography, astrophysics, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, celestial mechanics, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought, dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction, genethliac astrology, genethliacism, genethliacs, genethlialogy, gravitational astronomy, half-awake, horoscope, horoscopy, house, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, mansion, meditative, meteoritics, mooning, moonraking, mundane astrology, mundane house, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nativity, natural astrology, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, planetary house, preoccupation, preoccupied, radar astronomy, radio astronomy, rapt, reverie, solar physics, somewhere else, spectrography, spectroscopy, stellar photometry, study, taken up, trance, transported, unconscious, uranography, uranology, uranometry, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, zodiac
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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