unseeingn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈsiɪŋ/ (un- prefix1 8.)
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [noun]
not-seeinga1640
unseeing1860
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 164 False seeing is unseeing,—on the negative side of blindness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
unseeingadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈsiɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective]
unseyenlyc1175
unsenec1200
unseeinga1300
invisible1340
unperceptiblea1398
unseeablea1400
unvisiblec1402
unsightablea1420
unsightyc1440
unperceivable?a1475
unsightfulc1480
imperceptible1536
secret1559
sightless1586
undiscernable1586
invised1609
viewlessa1616
imperceivablea1617
unspiablea1618
inconspicuous1624
undiscernible1624
inconspicablea1652
imperspicable1664
unperceptable1678
imperceptive1722
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25010 Wit þis word ‘heuen’ þou vnder~stand Al gastli thing and vnseand.
2. Not seeing; lacking sight.
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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
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xliii. sig. Dv How would thy shadowes forme, forme happy show,..When to vn-seeing eyes thy shade shines so? View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 201 Else by Ioue, I vow, I should haue scratch'd out your vnseeing eyes. View more context for this quotation
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iv. 66 With a full eye, that of the circling throng And of the visible world unseeing, seem'd Fix'd upon objects seen by none beside.
1819 Monthly Mag. 48 33 As one who, sever'd from the maid he loves, Rolls an unseeing eye on all beside.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) i. 17 But the garden!..unseen and unseeing, it was a world of its own.
1873 M. E. Braddon Lucius Davoren I. 57 He looked at his friend's face with blank unseeing eyes.
1888 D. C. Murray Weaker Vessel I. ii. 25 After an apparently unseeing glance at one of its pages.
3. With object: Without seeing.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective]
sightlessa1325
unseeing1632
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 445 I haue gone eighteene leagues,..vnseeing house or Village.
1798 R. Southey Joan of Arc (ed. 2) i. I. 124 I sat in silence,..unheeding and unseeing all Around me.
Derivatives
unˈseeingly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adverb]
unseeingly1893
1893 ‘M. Corelli’ Barabbas xxxiii Barabbas went out, wandering almost unseeingly in the open street.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.a1300