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UNSEEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit
Synonyms:
spiritual domain; spiritual world; unseen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not anticipated
Example:
unseen problems
Synonyms:
out of the blue; unanticipated; unforeseen; unlooked-for; unseen
Classified under:
Similar:
unexpected (not expected or anticipated)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not seen or observed
Example:
unseen forces at work
Synonyms:
unobserved; unseen
Classified under:
Similar:
unnoticed (not noticed)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not seen or perceived
Example:
unseen natural resources
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
invisible; unseeable (impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye)
Context examples:
He sprang back, bristling and snarling, fearful of the unseen and unknown.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Sitting forwards, however, and screened by her bonnet, those smiles were unseen.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The mass of a galaxy is dominated by its dark side, an immense amount of matter that is unseen by telescopes.
(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The current best explanation suggests the plasma balls were launched by an unseen companion star.
(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)
There was no doubt that we had escaped unseen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Previously unseen features include newly exposed continental connections across South America and Africa and new evidence for seafloor spreading ridges in the Gulf of Mexico.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
Wait you with me outside, unseen and unheard, and things much stranger are yet to be.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Every year during spring and fall migration, tens of millions of birds take flight at sunset and pass over our heads, unseen in the night sky.
(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)
Captain Wentworth, after being unseen and unheard of at Uppercross for two whole days, appeared again among them to justify himself by a relation of what had kept him away.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In 1989, most of the northern hemisphere was in darkness and unseen by Voyager.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
