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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


Example Sentences

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She and Basil Petrou developed a financial instrument designed to attract investors to the kind of promising, early-stage medical research on blindness that traditionally fails to gather enough funding to proceed to FDA trials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

The answer isn’t ideological blindness so much as methodological constraint.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

The inquiry's senior counsel went on to say that managers at the health board had failed to ask questions about the hospital building and had instead showed a "wilful blindness".

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Previous additions include Barbie dolls with Type 1 diabetes, Down syndrome and blindness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

Even when they were safely away from the inn, and Catelyn Stark slowed them to a trot, it was a miserable pounding journey over rough ground, made worse by his blindness.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin