cecity

American  

[see-si-tee] / ˈsi sɪ ti /

noun

1. blindness.

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cecity British  

/ ˈsiːsɪtɪ /

noun

1. a rare word for blindness See blindness

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Etymology

Origin of cecity

1525–30; from Latin caecitās, equivalent to caecus ”blind“ + -ity

Example Sentences

At the theater, he bemoans the "limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players."

From Time Magazine Archive

What had our Arthur gain'd, to stop and see, After light's term, a term of cecity, A Church once large and then grown strait in soul?

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Very nice books, though I see you underrate my cecity: I could no more read their beautiful Bible than I could sail in heaven.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

You have divine insights, as we all have, of heaven, all of us with whom the mortal mind does not cake and obstruct into cecity.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir