blindness
English
Etymology
From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblaɪndnəs/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: blind‧ness
- Rhymes: -aɪndnəs
Noun
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
- ablepsy (rare)
- blindhood (rare)
- cecity
- sightlessness
Derived terms
- ad blindness
- banner blindness
- color-blindness
- colour-blindness
- colour blindness, color blindness
- day-blindness
- day blindness
- deaf-blindness
- deafblindness
- domestic blindness
- face blindness
- hysterical blindness
- inattentional blindness
- legal blindness
- moon blindness
- motion blindness
- night blindness
- nose blindness
- perceptual blindness
- place blindness
- race-blindness
- river blindness
- smell blindness
- snow blindness
- snow-blindness
- stereoblindness
- time-blindness
- willful blindness
- word-blindness
- word blindness
Translations
condition of being blind
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References
- “blindness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “blindness”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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