blindness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The condition of being blind; unable to see.

   DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.

2. 2
   noun

   Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   the state of being blind or lacking sight

4. 4
   noun

   concealment

Etymology

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