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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 watchedHumans detect a gaze in milliseconds, even peripherally
animal threatDirect eye contact reads as challenge to many species
contest existsStaring competitions have formal rules and global champions
blink budgetAdults blink up to 20 times a minute, fighting it
baby magnetNewborns prefer faces with eyes locked onto them