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unseen

noun

  1. something that is not seen; not apprehended by sight; unperceived, invisible
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adjective

  1. not seen or perceived
  2. not previously read or studied
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsiːn/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English unsen, unseyn, unseien, from Old English unġesewen, from Proto-Germanic *unsewanaz, equivalent to un- + seen. Cognate with Dutch ongezien (“unseen”), German Low German unsehn (“unseen”), German ungesehen (“unseen”).

  1. Not seen or discovered; invisible.

    You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

    Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

  2. Unskilled; inexperienced.
  3. Not hitherto noticed; unobserved.

    I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.

    The advent of COVID passports, so soon after increased check-in bureaucracy post-Brexit, brought major logistical ramifications to St Pancras International, of a kind unseen at any other major station in Britain.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English un- Arabic سِين (sīn)bor. English seen English unseen From un- + seen.

  1. An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

    I have French and Latin unseens this summer.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English un- Arabic سِين (sīn)bor. English seen English unseen From un- + seen.

  1. past participle of unsee

    What has been seen cannot be unseen.