open eyes
Notice what's there
Open eyes describes the state of having one's eyelids raised, allowing vision.
The phrase often carries figurative weight: to open someone's eyes is to make them aware of something they hadn't recognized: The documentary opened my eyes to the reality of factory farming.
With open eyes suggests acting with full awareness rather than naively: She went into the marriage with open eyes.
- irisEye's pigmented disc
- seePerceive with eyes
- receptivityWillingness to accept ideas
- see the lightSuddenly understand something
- eyelidsMovable eye covers
clarity · fresh perspective · look · focus · enlightenment · revelation · moment of clarity · awakening · rude awakening · wake up call · vigilance · widen · sight · pupils · discovery · binocular vision · blink · realization
- photo directionssmile, pose, look at me, chin up, hold it
- waking upwaking, wake up, rising, get up, yawning
- morningmorning, sunrise, daybreak, dawn, mid-morning
- set straightcorrect, rectify, put right, straighten out, disabuse
- epiphaniesepiphany, aha moment, eureka, aha, lightbulb moment
- BJDsfloating head, faceup, stringing, blushing, resin
open eyeswillful blindness
Conscious avoidance of knowledge
head in the sand · denial · turning a blind eye · obliviousness · unseeing
open eyesnarrow-mindedness
Closed thinking, limited perspective
tunnel vision · dogmatism · rigidity · prejudice · close-mindedness
open, eye, opening, eyes, opened, eyeball, opens, eyesight, eyed