gazers
Those who stare
Gazers is the plural of gazer—people who look steadily at something.
The word almost always appears with a modifier indicating what's being watched: stargazers, navel-gazers, crystal-ball gazers.
On its own, gazers suggests an audience of onlookers: The sunset drew gazers to the overlook.
Those who observe events
- onlookersPeople observing an event
- watchersThose who look on
- viewersPeople who watch
- bystandersPeople present but uninvolved
witnesses · beholders · lookers-on · rubberneckers · gawkers · ogling · staring · peering
Those who observe celestial bodies
- skywatchersPeople observing celestial phenomena
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
- constellationsRecognized celestial groupings
- astronomyScience of celestial objects
observatory · planets · cosmos · galaxy · nebula · comet · meteor · celestial
Those with ambitious visions
- wonderersThose who muse
- ponderersThose who reflect
- thinkersPeople who reason deeply
- meditatorsPeople who practice mindfulness
daydreamers · musing · reflecting · rapt · absorbed · transfixed · lost in thought · reverie
Tracks or displays
- spiesSecret intelligence gatherers
- scoutsInformation gatherers ahead
- sentriesSoldiers assigned to guard
- watchmenGuards of property
lookouts · sentinels · stalkers · voyeurs · peepers · snoopers · trackers · guards
Deeply devoted admirers
- worshippersThose who revere religiously
- devoteesPassionate adherents
- idolizersThose showing excessive admiration
- admirersPeople who appreciate someone
fawners · starstruck · moonstruck · smitten · enamored · doting · infatuated · besotted
spectators
Those who observe events
bystanders · witnesses · beholders · lookers-on · rubberneckers · gawkers · ogling · staring · peering · eyewitnesses
stargazers
Those who observe celestial bodies
- skywatchersPeople observing celestial phenomena
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
- constellationsRecognized celestial groupings
astronomy · observatory · planets · cosmos · galaxy · nebula · comet · meteor · celestial · eclipse
dreamers
Those with ambitious visions
meditators · daydreamers · musing · reflecting · rapt · absorbed · transfixed · lost in thought · reverie · introspection
monitors
Tracks or displays
- spiesSecret intelligence gatherers
- scoutsInformation gatherers ahead
- sentriesSoldiers assigned to guard
watchmen · lookouts · sentinels · stalkers · voyeurs · peepers · snoopers · trackers · guards · patrols
adorers
Deeply devoted admirers
- worshippersThose who revere religiously
- devoteesPassionate adherents
- idolizersThose showing excessive admiration
admirers · fawners · starstruck · moonstruck · smitten · enamored · doting · infatuated · besotted · enthralled
- one-eyed characterscyclops, Polyphemus, Mike Wazowski, beholder, one-eyed giant
- fierce gaze
- intense gaze
- fixed gaze
- steely gazeIntense, unwavering look
- piercing gazeIntensely penetrating look
- crystal gazerOne who predicts via sphere