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unseeing

British  
/ ʌnˈsiːɪŋ /

adjective

  1. with one's eyes open but not noticing or perceiving anything

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

Our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep, except our unseeing eyes, which still flit around behind sealed lids, like captive butterflies.

From Slate • May 28, 2018

She held her breath in the darkness, and the party passed unseeing.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2017

Benderesk stood still, his clouded eyes fixed hateful and unseeing upon Serret.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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