unseen

Definition

Not seen or discovered; invisible.

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”).

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "When night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen."