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Synonyms for unseeing

without the sense of sight

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Synonyms for unseeing

not consciously observing

lacking sight

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Unseeing, we spoke to one another through the scent of flowers, through the veil of leaves, through the blades of long grass that stood still before our lips; so great was our prudence, so faint was the murmur of our great longing.
She sat in the middle of the canoe with covered face; silent as she is now; unseeing as she is now--and I had no regret at what I was leaving because I could hear her breathing close to me--as I can hear her now."
She sank down into her chair again, and took up the same position which Mary had compared to the position of one watching an unseeing face.
She was not inattentive so much as remote; she looked at once so unseeing and so intent upon some vision of her own that Mary gradually felt more than protective--she became actually alarmed at the prospect of some collision between Katharine and the forces of the outside world.
There was a pause, and still the unseeing eyes stared at the ceiling.
Hamilton Fynes, this mysterious person who had succeeded, indeed, in making a record journey, was leaning back in the corner of his seat, his arms folded, his head drooping a little, but his eyes still fixed in that unseeing stare.
The Ancient Mariner dreamed back into the steward's eyes with a blank, unseeing gaze.
Not a word is spoken; the populous depths of the forest still murmur with their unseen and unseeing swarm, but all along the fringe there is silence absolute.
"What is it?" she asked, ere it came to her that his eyes were unseeing and that he was in delirium.
It was that, more than the shock of surprise of Lady Wetherby's news, that had sent him striding along the State Road at the rate of five miles an hour, staring before him with unseeing eyes.
Senior, this is Abibiman where we are true believers and disbelievers, seeing and unseeing Yesu Christus Emmanuel in any human at all.
He was lying on his back, his unseeing eyes staring at the sky.
In this lyrical introduction to her Alien Citizen Field Notes project, Ladan Osman challenges the "dubious ability to focus past one's own unseeing."
Tall buildings, glass and steel skyscrapers are newcomers in nearly every portion of Karachi, touted by the unseeing as eminent examples of an embrace of modernity, an anointment of sorts that situates Karachi as one among the world's emerging megacities, all of whom count sharp and jagged towers in their commanding skylines.