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the eyeball's longest sentence, spoken without a single word leaving your mouth
means To look at someone or something fixedly and for a long time, often with eyes wide and unmoving.
from From Old English starian, 'to gaze, look fixedly,' rooted in a Proto-Germanic verb meaning 'to be rigid or stiff' — a cousin of words like 'stark' and 'stern.' The thread that ties them is rigidity: a stare is, quite literally, eyes gone stiff.
- feels watched
- Humans detect a gaze in milliseconds, even peripherally
- animal threat
- Direct eye contact reads as challenge to many species
- contest exists
- Staring competitions have formal rules and global champions
- blink budget
- Adults blink up to 20 times a minute, fighting it
- baby magnet
- Newborns prefer faces with eyes locked onto them
for instance
medusa's gaze greek mythology — turns people to stone with her stare in ancient greek legends
the evil eye curse — believed across mediterranean and middle eastern cultures to harm through a malevolent stare
staring contests world record — guinness record held by wim hof at 1 hour 5 minutes without blinking in 2016