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stargazing

nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,552 of 15,258neutral

Stargazing is looking at the night sky for pleasure. Go stargazing, a night of stargazing, stargazing from the garden.

The eyes need about twenty minutes in darkness to reach their full sensitivity, and one glance at a phone undoes it. Light pollution has made stargazing impossible from most towns, where the Milky Way is never visible.

User Halfblue on en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of stargazing

  1. 1nounstargazingLooking at the night sky for pleasure.B1+

    “The desert is perfect for stargazing because there are no city lights.”

stargazing is a pastime.

Where it comes from

stargaze comes from star + gaze.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Camping & Outdoors

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