stare vs looking

stare and looking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stare	Yes	No	Yes	No
looking	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, looking is a hypernym of stare; that is, looking is a word with a broader meaning than stare:

stare: a fixed look with eyes open wide
looking: the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look

Other hypernyms of stare include look, looking at.

stare (noun)	looking (noun)
a fixed look with eyes open wide	the act of searching visually
	the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look

stare (adjective)	looking (adjective)
	appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms

stare (verb)	looking (verb)
fixate one's eyes
look at with fixed eyes