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English
Etymology
From un- + hearing.
Adjective
unhearing (not comparable)
- Not hearing.
- Antonym: hearing
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., , →OCLC, page 179:[She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]
2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 272:Camille said, as if unhearing, "Of course Apollo isn't with us permanently, you know!"