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
• snow blindness
• stereoblindness

Translations

condition of being blind

• Armenian: կուրություն (kurutʿyun)
• Asturian: ceguera f
• Bengali: অন্ধত্ব
• Bulgarian: слепота (bg) f (slepota)
• Catalan: ceguesa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盲目性 (zh) (mángmùxìng)

• Czech: slepota f
• Dutch: blindheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: blindeco
• Estonian: pimedus
• Finnish: sokeus (fi)
• French: cécité (fr) f
• Galician: cegueira f
• German: Blindheit (de) f
• Greek: τύφλωση (el) f (týflosi), τυφλότητα (el) f (tyflótita)
• Hebrew: עיוורון m (yvaron)
• Hungarian: vakság (hu)
• Italian: cecità f

• Japanese: 盲目 (ja) (もうもく, mōmoku)
• Korean: 장님 (jangnim)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: korî f, korahî f

  Sorani کوێری (ku) (kwêrî)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blindhet (no) m, f

• Persian: نابینایی (nâbinâyi)
• Polish: ślepota (pl) f
• Portuguese: cegueira (pt) f
• Russian: слепота (ru) f (slepotá)
• Scottish Gaelic: doille f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слепило n / сљепило n, слепоћа f / сљепоћа f

  Roman: slepilo n / sljepilo (sh) n, slepoća f / sljepoća (sh) f

• Slovene: slepota
• Spanish: ceguera (es) f
• Swedish: blindhet (sv) c
• Telugu: అంధత్వము (te) (aṃdhatvamu), గుడ్డితనం (te) (guḍḍitanaṃ)
• 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.