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- 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.
action of looking at another human or animal in the eye
- Arabic: اِتِّصَالٌ بَصَرِيّ m (ittiṣālun baṣariyy)
- Catalan: contacte visual m
- Chinese:
- Czech: oční kontakt m
- Danish: øjenkontakt c
- Dutch: oogcontact (nl)
- Finnish: katsekontakti (fi)
- French: contact visuel (fr) m
- German: Blickkontakt (de) m, Augenkontakt (de) m
- Hebrew: קשר עין m (késher áyin)
- Italian: contatto visivo m
- Japanese: アイコンタクト (ja) (ai kontakuto)
- Korean: 눈맞춤 (nunmatchum), 아이 콘택트 (ai kontaekteu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: øyekontakt m
- Nynorsk: augekontakt m, augnekontakt m
- Polish: kontakt wzrokowy m
- Portuguese: contato visual (pt) m
- Russian: зри́тельный конта́кт m (zrítelʹnyj kontákt)
- Spanish: contacto visual m
- Swedish: ögonkontakt (sv) c
- Vietnamese: giao tiếp bằng mắt
- Welsh: cyswllt llygad m
- “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.