blindness

Rather than causing complete blindness, the condition usually affects part of the vision in one eye.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 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

Together, these disorders affect about 200 million people worldwide and rank among the leading causes of visual impairment and blindness.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Vision issues are a distinctive red flag, particularly blurry vision, trouble looking at bright lights, and in some cases complete blindness.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Yet in 1924 a member of the third British expedition, Edward Felix Norton, reached an elevation of 28,126 feet—just 900 feet below the summit—before being defeated by exhaustion and snow blindness.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

"How secret art Thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, that bringest penal blindnesses on such as have unbridled desires," quotes Emerson from Augustine's confessions.

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by W. R. Washington Sullivan