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blindness

[ blahynd-nis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the inability to see; the condition of having severely impaired or absolutely no sense of sight:
Patients are first asked if their blindness is congenital or the result of injury or disease.
an unwillingness or inability to perceive or understand; lack of judgment; ignorance:
Your blindness to this behavior has allowed his anxiety to worsen.

blindness

/ blīnd′nĭs /

A lack or impairment of vision in which maximal visual acuity after correction by refractive lenses is one-tenth normal vision or less in the better eye. Blindness can be genetic but is usually acquired as a result of injury, cataracts, or diseases such as glaucoma or diabetes. In Asia and Africa, trachoma is a common infectious cause of blindness.

First recorded before 1000; blind ( def ) + -ness ( def )

A new Australian study, too, has consumers worried that Viagra could cause blindness and other vision problems.

They had overcome everything from religious persecution to blindness to crushing family responsibilities.

Throughout True Detective, Pizzolatto has linked blindness—an unseeing state—to the victims of the Carcosa cult.

Bacterial pathogens include gonorrhea (yes) which can cause blindness in a matter of hours, and chlamydia.

Part of the explanation for this dismal record of non-rescue is our capacity for willed blindness.

From that region they issue to inflict diseases, especially blindness and deafness.

We may apply to it with advantage the spectacles of social reform, but what the socialist offers us is total blindness.

But that "blindness to the future kindly given," allows them a few hours of sad enjoyment.

In the latter part of the same year he operated successfully upon Mme. Mignon for blindness.

In this stage iritis is liable to occur, and if it is not properly diagnosed and treated it will result in blindness.

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