sidegaze

See also: side-gaze and side gaze

English

From side +‎ gaze.

sidegaze (plural sidegazes)

(medicine) The act of looking sideways, to the left or right, by moving only one's eyes.
- 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^[1]:
  "His light wentout very promptly, didn't it?" She flashed me a sidegaze. Were we acting convincingly?
- 1984, Joseph Lang, Strabismus‎^[2], →ISBN, page 127:
  Gaze is almost never straight ahead but varies between downgaze, sidegaze, and upgaze. Correct fixation of an object does not take place.