stargazing

CIDE DICTIONARY

stargazing, n. 

•  The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stargazing

Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, aspect, astrodiagnosis, astrogeology, astrognosy, astrography, astrolithology, astrology, astromancy, astronomy, astrophotography, astrophysics, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, celestial mechanics, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought, dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction, genethliac astrology, genethliacism, genethliacs, genethlialogy, gravitational astronomy, half-awake, horoscope, horoscopy, house, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, mansion, meditative, meteoritics, mooning, moonraking, mundane astrology, mundane house, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nativity, natural astrology, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, planetary house, preoccupation, preoccupied, radar astronomy, radio astronomy, rapt, reverie, solar physics, somewhere else, spectrography, spectroscopy, stellar photometry, study, taken up, trance, transported, unconscious, uranography, uranology, uranometry, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, zodiac