blindness

English

Etymology

From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaɪndnəs/

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• Hyphenation: blind‧ness
• Rhymes: -aɪndnəs

Noun

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blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
   • 1989 February 5, Judy Harris, “Untitled image caption”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 3:

     DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.

2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
   • 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:

     A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.

3. (obsolete) concealment

Synonyms

• ablepsy (rare)
• blindhood (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

Coordinate terms

• ageusia
• anosmia
• deafness

Derived terms

• ad blindness
• banner blindness
• color-blindness
• colour-blindness
• colour blindness, color blindness
• day blindness
• day-blindness
• deafblindness
• deaf-blindness
• domestic blindness
• face blindness
• fire blindness
• hysterical blindness
• inattentional blindness
• legal blindness
• letter blindness
• moon blindness
• motion blindness
• night blindness
• nose blindness
• perceptual blindness
• place blindness
• race-blindness
• river blindness
• smell blindness
• snow blindness
• snow-blindness
• stereoblindness
• time-blindness
• voice blindness
• willful blindness
• word-blindness
• word blindness

Translations

condition of being blind

Arabic: عَمًى m (ʕaman) Armenian: կուրություն (hy) (kurutʻyun) Aromanian: urbari f, urbeatsã f Asturian: ceguera (ast) f Belarusian: слепата́ f (sljepatá) Bengali: অন্ধত্ব (bn) (ondhotto) Bulgarian: слепота (bg) f (slepota) Catalan: ceguesa (ca) f Chichewa: khungu Chinese: Mandarin: 盲目性 (zh) (mángmùxìng) Czech: slepota (cs) f Danish: blindhed (da) c Dutch: blindheid (nl) f Esperanto: blindeco Estonian: pimedus Faroese: blindleiki m, blindi n, blindni n Finnish: sokeus (fi) French: cécité (fr) f Galician: cegueira (gl) f Georgian: სიბრმავე (sibrmave), უსინათლობა (usinatloba) German: Blindheit (de) f Greek: τύφλωση (el) f (týflosi), τυφλότητα (el) f (tyflótita) Ancient: τυφλότης f (tuphlótēs) Hebrew: עיוורון m (yvaron) Hindi: अंधापन (andhāpan), अंधता (hi) (andhtā) Hungarian: vakság (hu) Irish: daille f Italian: cecità (it) f Japanese: 盲目 (ja) (もうもく, mōmoku) Kalmyk: бала (bala) Khmer: ភាពពិការភ្នែក (phiəppikaaphnɛɛk), ភាពខ្វាក់ (phiəpkhvak) Korean: 장님 (ko) (jangnim) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کوێری (kwêrî), kwêrî Northern Kurdish: korî (ku) f, korahî f Latin: caecitās f Macedonian: слепило n (slepilo) Malayalam: അന്ധത (ml) (andhata) Mongolian: сохор (mn) (soxor) Norwegian: Bokmål: blindhet (no) m or f Nynorsk: blindskap m Persian: نابینایی (nâbinâyi) Polish: ślepota (pl) f Portuguese: cegueira (pt) f Romanian: orbire (ro) f Russian: слепота́ (ru) f (slepotá) Scottish Gaelic: doille f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: слепило n / сљепило n, слепоћа f / сљепоћа f Roman: slepilo (sh) n / sljepilo (sh) n, slepoća f / sljepoća f Slovak: slepota f Slovene: slepota f Spanish: ceguera (es) f Swahili: upofu (sw) Swedish: blindhet (sv) c Telugu: అంధత్వము (te) (andhatvamu), గుడ్డితనం (te) (guḍḍitanaṁ) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: körlük (tr) Turkmen: körlük Ukrainian: сліпота́ f (slipotá) Unami: ahkèpinkëwakàn Vietnamese: chứng mù

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “blindness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “blindness”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.