blindness

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaɪndnəs/

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• Hyphenation: blind‧ness
• Rhymes: -aɪndnəs

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blindness

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blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
   • 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:

     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. (obsolete) concealment

• ablepsy (rare)
• blindhood (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

• anosmia
• deafness

• “blindness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “blindness”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.