eye contact
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English
Noun
- The condition or action of looking at another human or animal in the eye.
- to make eye contact with someone
- If you make the animal angry, walk slowly backwards and avoid making eye contact.
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
Descendants
Translations
action of looking at another human or animal in the eye
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Further reading
- “eye contact”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “eye contact”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.