blindness
Meaning
- The condition of being blind; unable to see.
- Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
- (obsolete) concealment
Frequency
Hyphenated as
blind‧ness
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈblaɪndnəs/
Etymology
From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness.
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