unseen

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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.

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

   I have French and Latin unseens this summer.

4. 4
   adj

   not observed

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”).

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