gazing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of gaze

noun

1. The act by which somebody gazes.

   “There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.”

   “To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.”