Unseeing

Definition: Unseeing

Unseeing

Adjective

1. Not consciously observing; "looked through him with blank unseeing eyes".

2. Lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar".

Date "unseeing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Synonyms: Unseeing

Synonyms: eyeless (adj), sightless (adj), unobservant (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unseeing

English words defined with "unseeing": unobservant, Unsight unseen. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Unseeing Eye (1959)

Unseeing Eyes (1923)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Seeing and Unseeing Social Structure: Sociology's Essential Insights (reference) The unseeing eye : the myth of television power in national politics (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unseeing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unseeing" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	55	45,713

Expressions using "unseeing": stare at smb. with unseeing eyes ♦ with unseeing eyes. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unseeing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që nuk shoh, i pavëzhgueshëm. (various references)

Bulgarian		сляп (blind, eyeless, purblind, sightless, unreasoning), невиждащ, ненаблюдателен (blind, sleepy, unobservant), лековерен (credulous, dupable, gullible, simple, simple minded, soft). (various references)

Finnish		näkemätön (unseen), näkemä (unseen). (various references)

German		blind (blind, blindly, clouded, false, invisible, purblind, pure, sheer, sightless, tarnished, unquestioning, unquestioningly, unreasoning, unthinking, unthinkingly). (various references)

Hungarian		vak (be blinded, blind, dry, hooded, sightless, visionless). (various references)

Italian		cieco (blind, blind person, caecum, sightless, sightless person). (various references)

Pig Latin		eeingunsay

Portuguese		que não vê, cego (blind, blunt, complete, rabid, sightless, sightless person, total, unquestioning). (various references)

Romanian		orb (blind, crazy, dim, headlong, reckless, sightless, unenlightened), credul (credulous, gull, gullible). (various references)

Russian		невидящий (sightless). (various references)

Spanish		ciego (blind, blind person, caecum, indiscriminate, purblind, sightless). (various references)

Turkish		kör (blind, blind as a bat, blunt, disused, dull, mole-eyed, not sharp, obtuse, sightless, stone blind, unsighted), görmeyen (blind, sightless, unsighted), dikkatsiz (careless, freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, lax, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unheeding, unobservant, unregardful, unwary). (various references)

Ukrainian		неспостережливий (bat-eyed, inobservant, unobservant), невидющий. (various references)

Vietnamese		mù quáng, không tinh mắt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unseeing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbeing, unscenic, useing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ingenues.
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: engines, ensuing, genuine, gunnies, ingenue.
	-2 letters: engine, ennuis, ensign, genies, genius, seeing, signee, unseen.
	-3 letters: ennui, ensue, genes, genie, genus, guise, negus, nenes, nines, segni, segue, seine, sengi, siege, singe, suing, using.
	-4 letters: egis, engs, gees, gene, gens, genu, gien, gies, gins, gnus, guns, inns, nene, nine, nuns, seen, sene, sign, sine, sing, snug.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: gunneries.
	+2 letters: ensanguine, insurgence, pungencies, sequencing, unsteeling.
	+3 letters: ensanguined, ensanguines, genuineness, indulgences, ingenuities, insurgences, integuments, monseigneur, supervening, unbeseeming, undersigned, undeserving.
	+4 letters: congruencies, enduringness, exsanguinate, hungrinesses, insurgencies, interregnums, multiengines, oversanguine, repugnancies, sanguineness, sunscreening, surrendering, underselling, undesignated, ungenerosity.
	+5 letters: amusingnesses, countersigned, cunningnesses, eugeosyncline, exsanguinated, exsanguinates, gainfulnesses, genuflections, genuinenesses, guanethidines, housecleaning, immunogeneses, immunogenesis, incongruences, ingeniousness, ingenuousness, inhomogeneous, languidnesses, naughtinesses, overingenious, rendezvousing, subgeneration, supplementing, underexposing, understeering, unfeelingness, ungodlinesses, uninteresting.
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