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Webster 1913 Edition


Blindness

Blind′ness

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Noun.
State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
Darwin.
Color blindness
,
inability to distinguish certain color. See
Daltonism
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Blindness

BLINDNESS

,
Noun.
Want of bodily sight; want of intellectual discernment; ignorance.

Definition 2024


blindness

blindness

English

Noun

blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

  1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
  2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
    • 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
      A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.
  3. (obsolete) concealment

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