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blindness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cecity, sightlessness |
| Type of | vision defect, visual defect, visual disorder, visual impairment |
| Has types | snow-blindness, anopia, snowblindness, eyelessness, figural blindness, legal blindness |
| Derivation | blind |
Examples of blindness
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A lack of iodine leads to blindness, developmental problems, and mental illness.
From the bbc.co.uk
If it did, the animals'eyes would've shown signs of blindness such as cataracts.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Researchers continue to search for methods of preventing and treating blindness.
From the cnn.com
The changes in the photoreceptors result in cell death, which lead to blindness.
From the sciencedaily.com
Partial blindness, defense lawyers argued, would have been a further impairment.
From the nytimes.com
Acosta's wife, Connie, says the family has come to terms with Jesse's blindness.
From the ocregister.com
Mutations in more than 200 genes have been linked to various forms of blindness.
From the sciencedaily.com
The parasites eventually make their way to the victim's eyes, causing blindness.
From the sciencedaily.com
Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
From the forbes.com
- The state of being blind or lacking sight
- (blind) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"
- (blind) render unable to see
- (blind) unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan
- (blind) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"
- (blind) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"
- Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.
- Blindness is a 2008 Brazilian-Canadian film, an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Portuguese author Josu00E9 Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as the main characters...
- Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning On Blindness) is a novel by Portuguese author Josu00E9 Saramago. It is one of his most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
