snow blindness

noun

the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.

First recorded in 1740–50

There was very little sleep for me that day for I had an unusually bad attack of snow-blindness.

All three of us were having trouble with snow-blindness; the "zinc and cocaine" tabloids being in great demand.

The unvarying white light of thick overcast days had been so severe that all were suffering from snow-blindness.

He was not suffering so much from snow blindness either as the others, for he had been able to keep his eyes covered.

Rod now found himself suffering from that sure affliction of every tenderfoot in the far North—snow-blindness.

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