blindness

noun

Definition of blindnessnext
as in amnesia

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Recent Examples of blindness Nearsighted kids like Viva face a significantly higher lifetime risk of serious eye problems and potential blindness. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026 Sighted musicians also responded to sounds more consistently compared with people who neither experienced early-life blindness nor received extensive musical training. — Woon Ju Park, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2026 Dench was first diagnosed in 2012 with macular degeneration, a retinal disease that erodes one’s central vision and is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in people over 65. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 Porat also highlighted a screening effort in the Global South for diabetic retinopathy, a diabetes complication that can cause blindness if it isn’t caught early. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 The city's medical examiner, Charles Norris, blamed the federal government's practice of adding toxic substances to industrial alcohol, including those involving methyl alcohol, also known as methanol, which can cause blindness and death. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Within this literature, no decade is more doom-laden than the nineteen-thirties, when misguided hope and willful blindness led the world’s democracies to grossly underestimate the threat of Fascism. — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Symptoms of the disease include severe itching and disfiguring skin conditions, as well as visual impairment and even permanent blindness after lesions develop on one’s eyes. — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026 Put differently, blindness, two-handedness, and the continuous line are restraints that freed Nauman from the habits of description. — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blindness
  1. amnesia
  2. forgetfulness
  3. oblivion
Noun
  • These include immune amnesia, a type of immunosuppression in which the measles virus destroys immune cells and adaptive responses.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Ketamine can cause a slew of other side effects, including delirium, amnesia, increased salivation, abnormal eye movements, high blood pressure and potentially fatal breathing problems.
    — Christopher P. Holstege, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of amnesia
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  • Kristy Luther, 44, Luther’s mom, said painful effects remain, like jaw infections, forgetfulness, and struggles with emotional regulation, impulse control and confidence.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The woman’s vanity and the husband’s forgetfulness collide to sow chaos and discord in the house.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of forgetfulness
Noun
  • On his last two drives, he was pressured into oblivion, forced to throw off-balance once and crumpled to the ground one other time.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Today’s problem is hyperscalers spending themselves into oblivion, spreading inflation well beyond Silicon Valley and obscuring problems nearly everywhere else.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of oblivion

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“Blindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blindness. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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