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unseeingly

unseeingly

8.2
To look without noticing what is in front of you
  • adverb
  • /ʌnˈsiːɪŋli/
translation icon : sin ver
  • Nolan had a long wait on the inside of the gate and stared unseeingly at the vast, curved walls of the Centrifuge unfolding to either side of him.
  • stared unseeingly

So they rather unseeingly roll into more narcissistic relationships when they start to date and make friends.

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Examples

  • She stared unseeingly at the blank wall, lost in her thoughts.

  • So they rather unseeingly roll into more narcissistic relationships when they start to date and make friends.

    DoctorRamani

  • Not just unseeingly going along and sacrificing yourself on the altar of the toxic relationship, but rather seeing these relationships for what they are.

    DoctorRamani

  • Her face is ashen, her eyes fearful as she walks unseeingly straight into a large tree stump.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • p23 Darcy sat at the dinette table, sipping coffee and staring unseeingly out the window at the gardens below.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • p41 Darcy stared unseeingly at the blueprint of the apartment she was decorating.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • As the lecture continued, he sat unseeingly with his eyes fixed on the floor.

  • The child gazed unseeingly out of the window, unaware of the passing cars.

Synonyms

absentmindedly
vsunseeingly
4 6.4

In a way that shows you are not paying attention because your mind is somewhere else

focuses on looking without registering visual details
obliviously
vsunseeingly
1 6.5

Not noticing what happens around you

is specifically about not noticing visual details while seeming present
inattentively
vsunseeingly
6.5

In a way that shows no attention to what is happening

is about looking but not noticing visual details
unmindfully
vsunseeingly
7.3

In a careless way without thinking

involves looking yet failing to register what is seen

How Observant

attentively
9 3.0
unseeingly
8.2

Surface Forms

unseeingly positive

Morphology

unseeingly = unseeing (transparent) = un + see + ing + ly

Formed regularly by adding -ly to the adjective 'unseeing' (un- + seeing), yielding an adverb meaning 'in a manner of not noticing'.

Etymology

The word unseeingly starts with un- 'not', as in unhappy, and has the root see 'to look' plus the ending -ly that makes it an adverb like quickly. So, unseeingly means 'not really seeing' — looking without noticing what is around you.