blindness
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.
Origin of blindness
1Words Nearby blindness
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How to use blindness in a sentence
One, a treatment for blindness, in which viruses carry a new gene to the retina, costs $425,000 per eye.
The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines | David Rotman | February 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewStock buyers were essentially flying blind while buying into companies, which some investors were more than willing to do, but that blindness limited the market demand for secondary shares significantly.
Carta’s startup liquidity service CartaX conducts first transactions on its own cap table | Danny Crichton | February 4, 2021 | TechCrunchMany of the concerning products are labeled as containing safe alcohols but actually contained methanol, an extremely poisonous form of alcohol associated with incorrectly distilled liquors that can cause blindness and even death.
84% of Mexican hand sanitizers toxic or flawed; FDA issues drastic alert | Beth Mole | January 27, 2021 | Ars TechnicaDiabetes is the leading cause of blindness, leading cause of non-trauma limb amputation, leading cause of kidney failure.
A Leading NYC Mayoral Candidate Thinks Roof Farms Can Save America’s Cities | Amanda Kludt | January 14, 2021 | EaterHe wrote, “Not only are we blind to the obvious, but we are blind to our blindness.”
Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar? (Ep. 445) | Stephen J. Dubner | December 24, 2020 | Freakonomics
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.
‘True Detective’ Finale Review: Close to Perfection | Andrew Romano | March 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBacterial pathogens include gonorrhea (yes) which can cause blindness in a matter of hours, and chlamydia.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Bob Costas’s Olympic Pinkeye | Kent Sepkowitz | February 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPart of the explanation for this dismal record of non-rescue is our capacity for willed blindness.
In Syria, Europe & Boston, the Past Is Never Finished | Kati Marton | May 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom that region they issue to inflict diseases, especially blindness and deafness.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayWe may apply to it with advantage the spectacles of social reform, but what the socialist offers us is total blindness.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockBut that "blindness to the future kindly given," allows them a few hours of sad enjoyment.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamIn the latter part of the same year he operated successfully upon Mme. Mignon for blindness.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheIn this stage iritis is liable to occur, and if it is not properly diagnosed and treated it will result in blindness.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
Scientific definitions for 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.
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