blindness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The condition of not being able to see.

   The disease left him with permanent blindness in one eye.

2. 2
   noun

   A refusal or failure to notice or understand something.

   Her blindness to his faults surprised everyone who knew them.

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

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