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单词 ablepsy
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ablepsyn.

Brit. /ˈablɛpsi/, U.S. /ˈæˌblɛpsi/
Forms: 1600s ablepsie, 1700s– ablepsy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ablepsia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin ablepsia failure to see or notice something, oversight (5th cent.; in classical Latin as a Greek word) < Hellenistic Greek ἀβλεψία failure to see < ancient Greek ἀ- a- prefix6 + Hellenistic Greek βλέψις sight ( < ancient Greek βλέπειν to see, of uncertain origin + -σις -sis suffix) + ancient Greek -ία -y suffix3.
literary.
Physical or mental blindness.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > imperfect perception > [noun]
thesterc897
blindness971
obscurationa1550
twilight1610
ablepsy1616
obcaecationa1631
mind-blindness1649
blear-eyedness1653
short-sightedness1670
blearedness1678
crassitude1679
myopia1801
purblindness1834
bat-mindedness1869
myopism1880
short sighta1888
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness
blindnessc1000
blindheada1340
darknessa1382
unsightc1412
stone-blindc1500
cecity1528
ablepsy1616
anopsy1646
invision1646
anopsia1842
sightlessness1847
stone-blindness1868
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Ablepsie, want of sight, blindnesse, vnaduisednesse.
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 242 Who doubteth, that is not blinded with the ablepsie of an implicite zeal?
1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio 285 Such great Ablepsie doth in others brain Lye, that they cannot see, though it be plain, Before their eyes.
1806 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Nov. 698 I trust we never shall be reduced to the condition of such total ablepsy.
1889 Atlanta Constit. 23 Feb. (electronic text) The New York Press says that those who are outside of its circle of readers are ‘affected by ablepsy’.
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 120 Misprint it was, due to the tendency of typesetters and typewriters to uniformitarianism, but the charge of ablepsy abides as is the case with ‘Chapman’ for ‘Chapman's’, [etc.].
1984 Classical Rev. 34 228 Typographical standards are generally so high that the book's copious errors of detail must be attributed to authorial ablepsy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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