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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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Regeneron’s flagship eye drug, Eylea, which has preserved the sight of millions of people with a common cause of blindness and generated roughly 80% of the company’s revenue at its peak, is facing increasing competition.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 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

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

From Slate May 7, 2026

He said quick treatment was essential to increase the chances of survival and to avoid life-changing disabilities, such as loss of limbs, blindness and brain injury.

From BBC Mar. 24, 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 Hill, Grace Livingston




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