unseeable

as ininvisible

Antonyms for unseeable

Word Origin & History

Old English seon "to see, look, behold; observe, perceive, understand; experience, visit, inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germanic *sekhwanan (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German sehan, Middle High German, German sehen, Old Frisian sia, Middle Dutch sien, Old Norse sja, Gothic saihwan), from PIE root *sekw- (2) "to see," which is probably identical with *sekw- (1) "to follow" (see sequel), a root which produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (cf. Latin sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see might originally mean "follow with the eyes."

Used in Middle English to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c.1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c.1200. Sense of "escort" (e.g. to see someone home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c.1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1590s. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Let me see as a pausing statement is recorded from 1510s. To have seen everything as a hyperbolic expression of astonishment is from 1957.

Example Sentences forunseeable

We cannot be exposed to the looks of others, for our very being is night-lustrous and unseeable.

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

One by one he snatched them up, one by one absorbed them into the great, unseeable horror of his being.

We quit staring at a closed brick outbuilding with unseeable things down under it, and went on our way.

Palisaded, cliff on radiant cliff, the spires of the Unseeable lay bare.

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