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/ ˈblaɪnd nɪs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun the inability to see; the condition of having severely impaired or absolutely no sense of sight: Patients are first asked if their blindness is congenital or the result of injury or disease.
an unwillingness or inability to perceive or understand; lack of judgment; ignorance: Your blindness to this behavior has allowed his anxiety to worsen.
Origin of blindness First recorded before 1000; blind + -ness
Words nearby blindness blinding, blind leading the blind, blindly, blindman's buff, blind man's rule, blindness , blind pig, blind register, blind roller, blind salamander, blind seed
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Example sentences from the Web for blindness They had overcome everything from religious persecution to blindness to crushing family responsibilities.
A College Degree Worth the Wait | Eleanor Clift| June 1, 2014| DAILY BEAST
And then bigger things, like helping to curse his rival with blindness .
There’s Something About Rosemary’s Baby: Rereading Ira Levin’s 1967 Novel | Stefan Beck| November 28, 2012| DAILY BEAST
Blindness By José Saramago Saramago once said that his work was about the “possibility of the impossible.”
Karen Thompson Walker’s Favorite ‘What If?’ Books: Book Bag | Karen Thompson Walker| July 3, 2012| DAILY BEAST
It seems significant that this is a memoir not “of” blindness .
Blindness as a Way of Seeing: Candia McWilliam’s Powerful Memoir | Lucy Scholes| April 6, 2012| DAILY BEAST
Ultimately, is some form of blindness necessary to hold all societies together?
Aravind Adiga Responds to Our Readers | The Daily Beast| July 30, 2009| DAILY BEAST
He was enraged at her blindness to Pete Cheever's duplicity or her complacency with it.
We Can't Have Everything | Rupert Hughes
One can scarce (scarcely) help smiling at the blindness of this critic.
Practical Exercises in English | Huber Gray Buehler
Her blindness is the merest fable; she can espy her favourites long before they are born.
The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler
Like theirs, also, it had beauty in its blindness —the beauty that lies in every pure unselfishness.
Under Two Flags | Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
She is of a long-suffering race, and thou wilt not desert her to the blindness of the heathen.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish | James Fenimore Cooper
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Words related to blindness defect, myopia, darkness, astigmatism, presbyopia, cataracts, amaurosis, purblindness, typhlosis
Scientific definitions for blindness A lack or impairment of vision in which maximal visual acuity after correction by refractive lenses is one-tenth normal vision or less in the better eye. Blindness can be genetic but is usually acquired as a result of injury, cataracts, or diseases such as glaucoma or diabetes. In Asia and Africa, trachoma is a common infectious cause of blindness.
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