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blindness

[blahynd-nis] / ˈblaɪnd nɪs /
NOUN
sightlessness
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
amaurosis astigmatism cataracts darkness presbyopia
WEAK
anopsia purblindness typhlosis
Antonyms
WEAK
sight sightedness


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This can cause sudden partial or complete blindness in one or both eyes.

From Science Daily May 23, 2026

Tatel is legally blind and seemingly feared that the justice would act with factual blindness.

From Slate May 7, 2026

Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 18, Petrou later advocated for “EyeBonds” and tax incentives to fund blindness research.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

Over time, it can lead to serious complications, including nerve damage, blindness, coma, and even death.

From Science Daily Mar. 2, 2026

He insisted that blindness and indifference to racial groups is actually more important than racial hostility to the creation and maintenance of racialized systems of control.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.

From The New Yorker Oct. 7, 2019

Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.

From The New Yorker Mar. 7, 2016

Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.

From The Guardian Jan. 21, 2013

As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked like the kind of man who lived on the blindnesses of others.

From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston




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