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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

Questions poured forth afterward about leadership, difficult personalities, education, institutional blindness, younger generations and whether children would still be able to distinguish between what is real and what is synthetic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The club warned people not to attempt to look through binoculars or telescopes which did not have proper solar filters as they could collect more light than the human eye could cope with, risking blindness.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

This can cause sudden partial or complete blindness in one or both eyes.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

And the one fear of every rabbit in it is that men are going to find them and infect them with the white blindness.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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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