UNSEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unseen mean? 

• UNSEEN (noun)
  The noun UNSEEN has 1 sense:

1. a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit

  Familiarity information: UNSEEN used as a noun is very rare.

• UNSEEN (adjective)
  The adjective UNSEEN has 3 senses:

1. not seen or perceived

2. not seen or observed

3. not anticipated

  Familiarity information: UNSEEN used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

spiritual domain; spiritual world; unseen

Hypernyms ("unseen" is a kind of...):

belief (any cognitive content held as true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unseen"):

Kingdom of God (the spiritual domain over which God is sovereign)

• UNSEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not seen or perceived

Context example:

unseen natural resources

Similar:

invisible; unseeable (impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not seen or observed

Synonyms:

unobserved; unseen

Context example:

unseen forces at work

Similar:

unnoticed (not noticed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not anticipated

Synonyms:

out of the blue; unanticipated; unforeseen; unlooked-for; unseen

Context example:

unseen problems

Similar:

unexpected (not expected or anticipated)

 Context examples 

I stayed my step, almost my breath, and stood to watch him—to examine him, myself unseen, and alas! to him invisible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This man declares that he was not absent from his post for an instant, and he is positive that neither boy nor man could have gone that way unseen.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Where he stood it was not so light, and, unseen, he would be able to see Her as she passed by.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Unseen and occultly, the gods still gripped with their power and would not let her go.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That nature had given it in feature could not be unseen by the young woman, nor could her higher powers of mind be unfelt by the parents.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He walked with his head sunk, his shoulders curved, and his knees bent, as one who strives hard to remain unseen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Voyager's visit to the Neptune system revealed previously unseen features of Neptune itself, such as the Great Dark Spot, a massive storm similar to, but not as long-lived, as Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

The silent gliding on of my existence—the unseen, unfelt progress of my life—from childhood up to youth!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This newly discovered huge structure around the system may have implications for what this yet-unseen planetary system looks like around the 8-million-year-old star, which is in its formative years of planet construction.

(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)

But unseen by the king, the manikin was standing beside him when he said that, and heard all.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)