badaud
- noun
- Offensive
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mirón (despectivo)
- As a badaud, she often found herself stopping to watch parades and celebrations, curious about everything happening around her.
- flâneur and badauds
Examples
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Fournel's text shows how the flâneur and the badaud emerged alongside each other as related but contrasting consumers of the urban scene.
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Although we may admire the elegantly expressed curiosity of the flâneur, we more easily (if not willingly) identify with the diversions of the badaud.
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The matter of the badaud's emotional engagement, though, is more complex.
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Thus, the badaud exemplifies the condition Schapiro described as the self being "wholly dissolved by the world."
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Once again we mirror the badaud, and the crowd's mix of social classes tells us that anyone is susceptible to gawking's appeal.
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The composition also places the viewer, and therefore the artist, in a similar position to the badaud at lower right, straining to look over a mass of heads and top hats in order to see.
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Yet, while the flâneur is one of the most studied and referenced subjects of nineteenth-century culture, the badaud remains remarkably obscure.
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In contrast to the cool detachment and intellectual control of the flâneur, badauds are emotional, highly impressionable, and distractible.
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As Fournel explained in 1858, "The simple flâneur is always in full possession of his individuality, whereas the individuality of the badaud disappears."
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The crowd of badauds gathered around the street performer, captivated by his tricks.
Synonyms
123
2.6
A person who watches an event or show without taking part
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3.2
A person who watches something without taking part
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9.9
A person who watches something without taking part
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8.6
A person who stares for too long at accidents or unusual events
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8.8
A person who stares at accidents or strange events
A person who watches an event without taking part
Antonyms
How Curious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Badaud comes from French and the old verb bâder, meaning 'to gape'. Think of a group that stops to stare—like a gawker—and you have a badaud, someone who watches out of idle curiosity.