blindness

English

Etymology

From Middle English blindnes, from Old English blindnysse; morphologically as if blind +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Wikipedia blindness (usually uncountable; plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
3. (obsolete) concealment

Synonyms

• ablepsy (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

Derived terms

• colour blindness, color blindness
• stereoblindness

Translations

condition of being blind

Armenian: կուրություն (hy) (kurut’yun) Bengali: অন্ধত্ব (bn) Bulgarian: слепота (bg) f. Catalan: ceguesa (ca) f. Chinese: 盲目性 Croatian: sljepòća (hr) f., sljèpilo (hr) n. Czech: slepota (cs) f. Dutch: blindheid (nl) f. Esperanto: blindeco (eo) Estonian: pimedus (et) Finnish: sokeus (fi) French: cécité (fr) f. German: Blindheit (de) f. Greek: τύφλωση (el) f., τυφλότητα (el) (tyflótita) f. Hebrew: עיוורון (yvaron) m. Hungarian: vakság (hu)

Italian: cecità (it) f. Japanese: 盲目 (もうもく, mōmoku) Korean: 장님 Kurdish: Kurmanji: korî f., korahî f. Sorani کوێری (kwêrî) Persian: نابینایی (fa) (nâbinâyi) Polish: ślepota (pl) f. Russian: слепота f. (slepota) Scottish Gaelic: doille f. Serbian: slepilo (sr) n., slepoća (sr) f. Slovene: slepota (sl) Spanish: ceguera (es) f. Swedish: blindhet (sv) c. Telugu: అంధత్వము (te) (andhatvam), గుడ్డితనం (te) (guDDitanam) Turkish: körlük (tr)

See also

• anosmia
• deafness

References

• blindness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “blindness” in OED Online, Oxford University Press, 1989.