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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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In a voice heavy with fatigue, she recounted more days of fever, sweats, hallucinations and temporary blindness.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The key to preventing blindness in diabetics is controlling blood sugar levels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

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

From Science Daily May 23, 2026

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

From Slate May 7, 2026

So I, now, with the vantage of years, am sensible of my foolishness, my blindness, as a child.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward




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