Why this word is great
MOONGAZER — [Noun] A person who observes the Moon, often with poetic or romantic admiration. From moon (Old English mōna, "lunar body") + gazer (from gaze, Old Norse gasa, "to stare"). Unlike "astronomer" (who measures craters and tracks orbits with clinical precision) or "lunatic" (who raves beneath its pull), a moongazer is content to simply stand and receive. It is the hush of bare feet on dew-damp grass at midnight, the silvered curve of a cheek upturned in reverence, the slow unfurling of breath in cold air as the mind empties into that luminous silence—a reminder that wonder requires no purpose beyond itself.