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| Main Entry: |
blindness
[blahynd]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sightlessness |
| Synonyms: | amaurosis, anopsia, astigmatism, cataracts, darkness, defect, myopia, presbyopia, purblindness, typhlosis |
| Antonyms: | sight, sightedness |
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| Concept: | Blindness. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; perceptions of light |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
blindness, cecity, excecation, amaurosis, cataract, ablepsy, prestriction; dim-sightedness [more]; ablepsia; Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena ("drop serene"), noctograph, teichopsia.
-verbs
be blind; not see; lose sight of; have the eyes bandaged; grope in the dark., not look; close the eyes, shut the eyes, turn away the eyes, avert the eyes; look another way; wink (limited vision); shut the eyes to, be blind to, wink at, blink at., render blind; blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one's eyes out; throw dust into one's eyes; jeter de la poudre aux yeux; screen from sight (hide).
-adjectives
blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand-blind, stark-blind; undiscerning; dimsighted., blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a mole, blind as an owl; wall-eyed., blinded.
-adverbs
blindly, blindfold; darkly.
-phrases
"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton].
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| Antonyms: | vision |
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| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | blindness, concealment, denseness, inscrutability, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, unawareness |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, enlightening, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental unclarity |
| Synonyms: | befuddlement, blindness, confusion, daze, haze, maze, mist, muddledness, muddlement, obscurity, perplexity, stupor, trance, vagueness |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, understanding |
| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Antonyms: | competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illiteracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illiterateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nescience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obliviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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