sightlessness
- a word derived from sightless.
Example Sentences
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My journey into voluntary sightlessness began while backpacking through Southeast Asia in my mid-20s.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2018
And rest assured, if you bother to press Williams on how Arya is dealing with sightlessness, she will say, in the nicest way possible, don’t waste MY time or YOURS.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2016
Among his most famous black-and-white photographs was one of a blind boy, seemingly trying to transcend his sightlessness by reaching for a ribbon of light on a wall.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2015
In his ineffably moving sonnet "On His Blindness", Milton does not talk of his own sightlessness; rather, he turns an inner eye on "this dark world and wide".
From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2012
The sea lived: it could crawl backward and forward; it could speak!—it only feigned deafness and sightlessness for some malevolent end.
From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio
