Stargazing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stargazing \Star"gaz`ing\, n.
     1. The act or practice of observing the stars with attention;
        contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or
        astronomy. --Swift.
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     2. Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stargazing
       n : observation of the stars

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "stargazing":
     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