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Unseen vs Unseel - What's the difference?

unseen | unseel |

As verbs the difference between unseen and unseel

is that unseen is while unseel is (obsolete) to open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled.

As an adjective unseen

is not seen or discovered.

As a noun unseen

is an examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

unseen

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not seen or discovered.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • Unskilled; inexperienced.
    • Derived terms
    * sight unseen

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
    • What has been seen cannot be unseen .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
    • I have French and Latin unseens this summer.

    unseel

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled.
  • (obsolete, by extension) To give light to; to enlighten.
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)