blindness
/ˈblaɪndnəs/ noun B2- The condition of being blind; unable to see.
- Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
Plural blindnesses
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AN OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing.
I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it.”
Sire, we have all been blind, and the minister of police has shared the general blindness, that is all.”
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