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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


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"Secondly, greys have squirrel pox - it doesn't affect them but they transmit it to red squirrels and it's fatal for them. It's a horrible disease and causes them ulcers and blindness."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The work could also improve scientists' understanding of diseases that damage the retina, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, and congenital night blindness.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

"Because I live with blindness and mobility challenges, climate impacts affect me differently and can make everyday life much harder to navigate safely," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Tatel is legally blind and seemingly feared that the justice would act with factual blindness.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

Initially there had been nothing but the blindness of hope, as if a magic wand would appear and make his knee pure again.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019

Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016

Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013

He does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked like the kind of man who lived on the blindnesses of others.

From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill




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