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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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The work could also improve scientists' understanding of diseases that damage the retina, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, and congenital night blindness.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

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

From Slate May 7, 2026

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

From Science Daily Mar. 2, 2026

Mange is a common issue for foxes, especially during winter, with many foxes dying or being left with serious injuries such as blindness.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

“I am suffering from a temporary blindness induced by trauma,” said William Spiver.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo

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

He does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.




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