It means to gaze, not just looking.
Mistakel implies looking intensively, perhaps more like to stare.
I used to think this as well. But I believe it is clear from the Gemara in Avoda Zara 20a that the term ?????? is either lav davka or doesn’t necessarily mean that. The gemara asks ????????? ?? ??? on R’ Shimon ben Gamliel who commented when he saw (???) a woman who was exceedingly beautiful. (The Gemara’s answer also, that he must have bumped into her turning a corner, does not imply that it is redefining ???????, but rather simply that it wasn’t his fault.)