sidegaze
nounEtymology From side + gaze.
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Medicine, Sciences The act of looking sideways, to the left or right, by moving only one's eyes.
- "His light wentout very promptly, didn't it?" She flashed me a sidegaze. Were we acting convincingly?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:
- Gaze is almost never straight ahead but varies between downgaze, sidegaze, and upgaze. Correct fixation of an object does not take place.1984, Joseph Lang, Strabismus, →ISBN, page 127: