Usually means: Looking directly into someone's eyes.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word eye contact:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. eye contact: Merriam-Webster
  2. eye contact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eye contact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eye contact: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eye contact: Vocabulary.com
  6. eye-contact: Wordnik
  7. eye contact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eye contact: Wiktionary
  9. eye contact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. eye contact: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. eye contact: Dictionary.com
  12. Eye Contact (Bob Welch album), Eye Contact (Gang Gang Dance album), Eye Contact, Eye contact (disambiguation), Eye contact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. eye contact: Rhymezone
  14. eye contact: FreeDictionary.org
  15. eye contact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. eye contact: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. eye contact: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eye contact: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eye contact: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (eye contact)

▸ noun:  The condition or action of looking at another human or animal in the eye.

Similar:
eye lock, eye-lock, eyebeam, eyegaze, eyeglance, eyelock, eyesies, eyeballing, eye examination, side-eye, more...

Opposite:
averted gaze, looking away

Types:
direct, fleeting, prolonged, averted, intense, flirtatious, hostile, friendly, respectful, more...

Phrases:
made eye contact, avoid eye contact, avoiding eye contact, make eye contact, to make eye contact, more...

Adjectives:
squint, peepy, beady-eyed, all eyes, cast, eyeball to eyeball, deadeye, agog, squint-eyed, misty-eyed, wide-eyed

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Similar:
eye lock, eye-lock, eyebeam, eyegaze, eyeglance, eyelock, eyesies, eyeballing, eye examination, side-eye, more...

Opposite:
averted gaze, looking away

Types:
direct, fleeting, prolonged, averted, intense, flirtatious, hostile, friendly, respectful, more...

Phrases:
made eye contact, avoid eye contact, avoiding eye contact, make eye contact, to make eye contact, made eye contact with, break eye contact, breaking eye contact, keep eye contact, to break eye contact, more...

Adjectives:
squint, peepy, beady-eyed, all eyes, cast, eyeball to eyeball, deadeye, agog, squint-eyed, misty-eyed, wide-eyed



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