'Stargazing' definitions:
Definition of 'stargazing'
(from WordNet)
noun
Observation of the stars
Definition of 'Stargazing'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stargazing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Walter Mitty,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought,
- zodiac