unseeable

(ʌnˈsiːəbəl)

adj

not able to be seen

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Adj.

unseeable - impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye; "the invisible man"; "invisible rays"; "an invisible hinge"; "invisible mending"

invisible

covert - secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels"

imperceptible, unperceivable - impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses; "an imperceptible drop in temperature"; "an imperceptible nod"; "color is unperceivable to the touch"

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invisibile

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References in classic literature

"But unseen voices may emanate from unseen and unseeable creatures who wield invisible blades," answered the green warrior.

View in context

The emphasis throughout this early scene seems to be deliberately on the unseeable perhaps to prepare emotionally for the Incarnation which occurs at the end.

The Towneley 'First Shepherds' Play': Its 'Grotesque' Feast Revisited

'We have seen what we thought was unseeable," the astronomer said, like someone who knows history's ear is pressed against the door.

What it means for us to actually 'see' a black hole

'Breakthroughs in technology and the completion of new radio telescopes over the past decade have allowed researchers to now see the unseeable'.

Black hole visual unveiled by astronomers

"We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole," announced Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard, leader of the project.

Behold, a picture of a black hole Image: If person were up close, black hole might not look like this

At one of six press conferences around the world announcing the landmark results from the Event Horizon Telescope project, Dr Sheperd Doelman, from Harvard University in the USA, said: "We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole.

In a galaxy far, far away... first image of 'doughnut' that can swallow stars

Dr Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard University said: "We have seen what we thought was unseeable."

Typical! You wait eons for first snap of a black hole.. and it comes out looking like a blurry doughnut

It is along those edges that light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect."We have seen what we thought was unseeable.

Scientists reveal first image ever made of a black hole

She added, "We are seeing the unseeable. Black holes have sparked imaginations for decades.

We have now seen the unseeable: astronomers release first ever image of black hole

Incorporated in a dialogical negotiation with other aesthetic structures of meaning-making, however, it can help hold the real unlookable, unseeable, unspeakable violations of the subject palpably, if indeed incomprehensibly, unassimilably, and irreducibly, within these forms of memorialization.

Dismembering Remembering: Mourning with Disgust in Delbo's Auschwitz and After

Perhaps now--if you didn't already--you can see why we devoted the cover to something unseeable.

The Big Empty