blindness
The condition of being blind; unable to see.
Other meanings
Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
Related words
- ad blindness
- fire blindness
- banner blindness
- color-blindness
- colour-blindness
- day blindness
- day-blindness
- deaf-blindness
- deafblindness
- domestic blindness
- face blindness
- hysterical blindness
Word history
From Old English "blindnes".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “blindness” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.