blindness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)
- The condition of being blind; unable to see.
- (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
- 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:
- A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.
- (obsolete) concealment
Synonyms[edit]
- ablepsy (rare)
- blindhood (rare)
- cecity
- sightlessness
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
condition of being blind
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- blindness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “blindness”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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