unperceiving

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The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized doubts of New Jersey's unseeing, unperceiving Governor."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mara had no peculiar gift for acting, except in this one point; but here all the vitality of nature rallied to her support, and enabled her to preserve an air of the most unperceiving serenity.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the Secondary than the Primary Qualities.

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George

But, I do not know what is meant when it is said that an unperceiving substance hath inherent in it and supports either ideas or the archetypes of ideas.

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George

But how is it possible that pain, be it as little active as you please, should exist in an unperceiving substance?

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George