unobviousadj.

1643 W. Prynne Popish Royall Favourite 36 Some more speciall passages in Popish writers,..which because then unobvious and unknown to most, I had an intention to have published.

1676 J. Glanvill Ess. iii. 44 The knowledge and application of some unobvious and unheeded Properties and Laws of natural things.

1719 Free-thinker No. 155. 1 To perceive the unobvious Distinctions between Things, which bear a very near Resemblance to one another.

1798 T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. 8 Oct. (1810) 109 Its efficient cause, therefore, must not be sought..in any unobvious qualities.

1845 J. S. Mill Ess. II. 183 To trace back this philanthropic movement..to its small and unobvious beginnings.

1890 Spectator 25 Oct. Mr. Orger's amendment..would appear to be as unobvious..as need be.

1958 New Scientist 5 June 103/3 The answer to the high-speed storage problem remains unobvious.

2013 J. Grant Crit. Imagination v. 71 I suggest that the unobvious, rather than the new or the underivative, is the notion we want.

1833 Tourist 13 May 334/1 But if..there was nevertheless a latent impiety in possession of the heart, it would inevitably, however unobviously, infuse something of its spirit into the communications of such men.

1964 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 324 992/1 We cannot see that such structure is unobviously different from the Chevalerias structure.

2006 G. Oppy Arguing about Gods 34 Members of two of the camps have views that are unobviously contradictory.

1842 H. E. Manning Unity of Church ii. iv. 256 Unbelievers, both heathen and apostate, have cavilled at..the unobviousness of its intrinsic efficacy.

1986 Fortune June 23 73/1 Under U.S. law, a valid patent, one that meets the three basic standards of utility, novelty, and unobviousness, confers on the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for 17 years.

2009 H. Strandberg Escaping my Responsibility iii. 74 The unobviousness of naturalistic definitions and analyses is not merely psychological, but is internally connected to the phenomenon.