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blindness
[blahynd-nis]
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
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.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blindness1
Example Sentences
Overall, she described the lack of action by the authorities over the years as "denial" or a collective "blindness", particularly when it comes to the ethnicity of perpetrators.
Those are characters who have willful blindness to what’s going on, and it was about how do you crack open their eyes to see the truth, then how would they react to it?
It's estimated that about 3 million people living in the UK are affected by colour blindness, according to Colour Blind Awareness.
It was work, Acharya said, that no one else was doing, aimed at preventing a loss of vision or blindness.
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe epilepsy and more difficult outcomes.
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