blindness

B2 Topic:Abstract Ideas

US /ˈblaɪndnəs/ See IPA manual

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Meanings

1

noun
The condition of not being able to see.

The disease left him with permanent blindness in one eye.
2

noun
A refusal or failure to notice or understand something.

Her blindness to his faults surprised everyone who knew them.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the condition of not being... sightlessness

More ablepsyblindhoodcecity

Word family

Forms blindnesses

Derived forms color-blindnesscolour-blindnessday-blindnessdeaf-blindnessdeafblindnessrace-blindnesssnow-blindnessstereoblindnesstime-blindnessword-blindness

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color blindness
difficulty or inability in distinguishing certain colors from one another

Noun + noun

Etymology

From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness.

blyndnes Middle English blindnes Old English

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