Unseen vs Unforeseeable - What's the difference?
unseen | unforeseeable |
Not seen or discovered.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Unskilled; inexperienced.
An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
As adjectives the difference between unseen and unforeseeable
is that unseen is not seen or discovered while unforeseeable is incapable of being foreseen or anticipated.As a verb unseen
is past participle of lang=en.As a noun unseen
is an examination involving material not previously seen or studied.unseen
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
Derived terms
* sight unseenEtymology 2
Verb
(head)- What has been seen cannot be unseen .
Noun
(en noun)- I have French and Latin unseens this summer.