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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

In other words, spiders toss, turn, and avert their unseeing gaze, much as humans do during their dreams.

From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2022

This can be really useful for mitigating anxiety, as well as for unseeing what you once considered can’t-unseeable.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2020

Then the blind man raised his head, and it seemed to the young man as if the unseeing eyes were staring right into his soul.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

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