A person who looks at and studies the stars; someone who dreams about future possibilities or is lost in thought.
Compound word from 'star' plus 'gazer' (one who gazes). Used literally since medieval times for astronomers, and metaphorically since at least Shakespeare's time for dreamers.
Stargazers were once considered dreamers or impractical thinkers—there's even a medieval woodcut showing a stargazer so absorbed in looking upward he falls into a well! The word has evolved from criticism to romance.
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