not-seeingn.
/ˌnɒtˈsiːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌnɑtˈsiɪŋ/ The state or action of not seeing.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [noun]
not-seeinga1640
unseeing1860
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian (1655) I. i. 17 She may as well Command when you are hungry, not to eat, Or drink, or sleep; and yet all these are easie Compar'd with the not seeing of a man.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 250 In not-looking, and in not-seeing Comes a new strength.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 177 In the notseeing and the hardknowing as though in a cave he seemed to see a diminishing row of suavely shaped urns.
1963 Listener 10 Jan. 71/2 To the not-seeing of the flat surface of Renaissance painting Abstract Art opposes the not-seeing of figures or patterns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† not-seeingadj.
Obsolete. rare.
That does not see; blind.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind
star-blindeOE
bissonc950
blind-bornc975
blindc1000
darkOE
purblinda1325
sightlessa1325
start blinda1387
stark blinda1425
stone-blindc1480
beetle-blind1556
beetle1566
eyeless?1570
purblinded1572
high-gravel-blind1600
not-seeing?1602
kind-blind1608
bat-blind1609
unseeing1609
blindful1621
winking-eyed1621
lamplessa1625
deocular1632
lightless1638
bat-eyed1656
stock-blind1675
duncha1692
gazelessa1819
visionlessa1821
blind-eyed1887
stone-eyed1890
unsighted1983
?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 7 I am Tyresias, the not seeing prophett,..blind as any beetle, And cannot see a whitt.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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